09.02.10
Hurricane Earl vs. North Carolina
Hurricane Earl sets his sights on the mid-Atlantic Coast tonight, brushing past the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a weakening Category 3 storm. Winds are currently 115 mph, with a minimum pressure of 947 mb.
Latest NHC track for Earl:
I’m off to chase some storms (with other researchers from the National Severe Storms Lab) developing along a cold front moving through western Oklahoma, hence the short message. We’ll be launching balloons into the storms, with instruments that will measure electric field, temperature, relative humidity, winds, and pressure, as well as take images of particles (ice, rain, etc.) within the clouds.