Hurricane Earl has remained roughly constant in intensity over the past six hours, as it heads north-northeast at 20 mph towards New England. Earl's outermost spiral bands have already brought as much as one inch of rain to portions of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with lesser amounts on Long Island and Connecticut. Earl is still expected to pass 20 - 50 miles southeast of Nantucket and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, at about 2am Saturday, and be a strong tropical storm with 70 mph winds or a weak Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph winds.In the Central Atlantic, it appears that Tropical Storm Gaston may be regenerating. Models support regeneration, and predict a possible threat to the Lesser Antilles by Wednesday.
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