Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center project that Earl, a Category 4 hurricane with 135 mile-per-hour sustained winds as it brushed past Puerto Rico on Monday, will head up the Atlantic Coast later this week. It is projected to be off the Outer Banks by Thursday evening and off the Jersey Coast on Friday. Unlike Danielle, now downgraded to a tropical storm as it heads northeastward across the North Atlantic, Earl is tracking farther westward.
Meanwhile, another tropical storm was spawned Monday by a tropical wave that passed from the West Coast of Africa last Thursday and intensified late Monday into a tropical storm. Named Fiona, it was poorly organized Monday and following pretty much in Earl's wake across the tropical Atlantic.
Anyone planning coastal vacations beginning later this week should keep an eye on developments from Earl, and possibly Fiona.
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