Hurricane Earl is gonna have his day...

Discussion and 48-hour outlook
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at 100 am AST...0500 UTC...the center of Hurricane Earl was located
near latitude 19.9 north...longitude 66.2 West. Earl is moving
toward the west-northwest near 14 mph...22 km/hr.  This general
motion is expected to continue this morning...followed by a turn
toward the northwest later today.  On the forecast track...the
center of Earl will pass well north of Puerto Rico this morning...
and pass east of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday night and
Wednesday.

Maximum sustained winds are near 135 mph...215 km/hr...with higher
gusts.  Earl is a category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson
hurricane wind scale.  Some fluctuations in strength are likely
over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 70 miles...110 km...from
the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 200
miles...325 km.

The latest minimum central pressure reported by an Air Force Reserve
hurricane hunter aircraft is 933 mb...27.55 inches.