Canadian Hurricane Centre says it’s ‘keeping an eye’ on Hurricane Earl

The Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) says it is watching out for Hurricane Earl, a slow northward-moving hurricane currently located above the Caribbean, off the shore of Florida.

Earl began as a strong tropical storm but became a hurricane overnight — the second hurricane of this Atlantic season.

The hurricane is “not expected to have a significant impact in Canada but there may be larger than normal waves along the coast of Nova Scotia this weekend,” read a CHC tweet.

According to the U.S. National Hurricane Centre, Earl is expected to keep moving northward, hitting Bermuda tonight. The island was placed under a tropical storm watch, as Earl is expected to produce swells, “causing life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”

The U.S. agency said in an 8 a.m. update that maximum sustained winds have increased to 135 kilometres per hour with higher gusts.

“Strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days, and Earl is expected to become a major hurricane late Thursday or Thursday night,” read the update.

It also said Earl is forecast to become extratropical by Friday, “while it interacts with the aforementioned deep-layer low to the southeast of Atlantic Canada.”