Hurricane Earl

Hurricane Earl is a category 4 hurricane as of this writing with 135 mph maximum sustained winds. It's currently passing just to the north of Puerto Rico and is moving to the west-northwest at about 14 mph. It's currently impacting Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands with heavy rain, high surf, and tropical storm force winds. Earl may strengthen some over the next 24 hours, and will probably track more to the northwest. As the map above shows, the hurricane isn't expected to make landfall on the U.S. mainland, but will produce high seas and dangerous rip currents from central Florida to Massachusets along with tropical storm force winds. --TS