Please report any news here...looks like it is worse than expected...

The forecasted track is now a mere 90 miles off the coast of Montauk, N.Y. When you include a 30-mile-wide eye and hurricane force winds that will likely extend outward up to 100 miles from the center, hurricane-force gusts are now likely in the Hamptons.

Earl is the third-strongest hurricane ever to travel so far north along the East Coast, Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Masters said today in his blog. Its winds are just 5 mph below the strength of the 1955 and 1961 storms that hold the record, he said.