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   September 8, 2022 - Hurricane Earl Strengthening over the Atlantic   
      
      Hurricane Earl   
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      The fifth-named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed on   
      September 2, 2022, east of the Northern Leeward Islands. The National   
      Hurricane Center (NHC) issued the first advisory on Tropical Storm Earl   
      at 11:00 p.m. EDT on that date, when the storm was carrying maximum   
      sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). At that time, Earl’s center was   
      located about 185 miles (195 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands   
      and was posed to carry heavy rains over the Leeward Islands, Virgin   
      Islands and Puerto Rico.   
      
      Tropical Storm Earl tracked northwestward until September 4, when it   
      turned to move nearly northward. Maximum sustained winds slowly   
      strengthened until September 5 when maximum sustained winds reached 65   
      mph (105 km/h). The storm struggled to intensify until about 8:00 p.m.   
      on September 6 when winds reached 75 mph (121 km/h) to bring the storm   
      across the threshold to earn the title of Hurricane Earl.   
      
      Since that time, Hurricane Earl has continued to intensify. At 8:00   
      p.m. EDT on September 7, the NHC advised that Earl’s maximum sustained   
      winds had reached 90 mph (150 km/h), which placed it as a Category 1   
      storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Hurricane Earl was   
      located about 390 mi (625 km) south of Bermuda and was moving north,   
      towards Bermuda, at 8 mph (13 km/h). At that time, hurricane-force   
      winds extended up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center of the storm and   
      tropical-storm-force winds extended outward for 150 miles (240 km).   
      Only three hours later, at 11:00 p.m. EDT, Hurricane Earl’s maximum   
      sustained winds reached about 98 mph (158 km/h), bringing it to   
      Category 2 strength.   
      
      Although the center of Hurricane Earl is expected to pass southeast of   
      Bermuda after the storm takes a turn eastward, the storm is expected to   
      intensify in strength over the next several days to become a Major   
      (Category 3) hurricane. At the same time, the wind field is expected to   
      expand. This combination makes it likely that tropical-storm-force   
      winds will pass over the islands of Bermuda beginning on the afternoon   
      of September 8 and continuing on September 9. It is also possible for   
      hurricane-force winds to whip the islands, and a Hurricane Watch as   
      well as a Tropical Storm Warning is in place for Bermuda starting on   
      September 7. Heavy rain is forecast for Bermuda through September 9,   
      while heavy swells are expected to reach Bermuda by September 7 and   
      parts of the East Coast of the United States shortly after.   
      
      On September 7, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of   
      Hurricane Earl heading northward and intensifying over the Atlantic   
      Ocean. The large island of Hispaniola can be seen southwest of the   
      storm, with the smaller island of Puerto Rico nearly due south of the   
      center. At the time the image was acquired, the storm was carrying   
      maximum sustained winds of about 80 mph (129 km/h) but would soon be   
      stronger. Earl sported a large cloud-filled center with deep convective   
      banding wrapping around the central core.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 9/7/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (688.7 KB),  500m (2.2 MB),   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-09-08   
       
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