Hurricane Earl swirls northeast of North Carolina Friday morning in a satellite picture. Image source: GOES/NASA
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Earl was a very intense storm with winds exceeding 140 miles (225 kilometers) an hour as it moved northward along the U.S. East Coast.
But as of Friday morning, Earl had diminished to a Category 1 hurricane with peak winds of about 85 miles (137 kilometers) an hour…
