Hurricane Earl (2010)

A long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that originated from a tropical wave west of the Cape Verde Islands on 25 August 2010, tracked as a tropical storm near 15.7N 43.6W about 1,300 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. It reached peak winds of 145 mph (233 km/h) after reorganising, and affected the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada. It came ashore in Nova Scotia as a Category 1 hurricane, where hundreds of thousands of people lost power for days.

Formed (UTC)

2010-08-24

Dissipated (UTC)

2010-09-06

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

4

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

125

Basin it formed in

North Atlantic

Deaths, as sources state them

1 (drowning in Nova Scotia)

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2010236N12341

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: atlantic hurricane, 2010 season, cape verde hurricane, nova scotia, leeward islands, landfall

Coordinates: 20.152070632046765, -66.32011772007795

Part of Atlantic hurricanes of category 4 and above in the 2008 to 2016 seasons

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