Hurricane Stocks

[littlejohn]

Irene effects up the East coast may worsen if the center of the current projection is close...If the eyewall passes along the outerbanks of North Carolina and stayed on a more northern track after that...

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/143914.shtml?5-daynl#contents

Cat 4 expected to be reached for Irene but intensity should drop some as it moves north...LJ