Hurricane Florence is tracking toward the East Coast with invariability rarely seen in storms several days away from landfall. On Sunday evening, the National Hurricane Center was forecasting Florence to become a strong Category 4 just prior to making landfall somewhere on the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic coast on Thursday. The environment ahead of the storm for the next four days favors at least a Category 3 hurricane landfall on the Southeast coast by week’s end. It is not out of the question that Florence could become a Category 5 hurricane at some point. If a major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) does make landfall along the Southeast coast, the rarity of such an event is relevant.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2018 15:25 UTC