Hurricane Earl spared the Cape Fear region, passing offshore as it headed north to sideswipe North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

While the storm has not yet made landfall in the United States, it could do so along the Massachusetts coast this weekend.
As of 5 a.m. the center of Hurricane Earl was located at 35.3 N, 74.0 W, or about 85 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The storm was moving north-northeast at 18 mph. Maximum sustained winds were 105 mph, and the storm’s minimum central pressure had increased to 955 mb, or 28.20 inches. Earl is a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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