Warmer LI water temps may feed Earl's power
Photo credit: James Carbone | Beachgoers stay out of the waves at Rogers Beach in Westhampton Beach as powerful waves formed by Hurricane Earl crash onshore. (Sept. 2, 2010)
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Warmer than average Atlantic Ocean water temperatures off New Jersey and Long Island could be to Hurricane Earl what spinach was to Popeye.
The ocean could feed the storm and could keep it strong, forecasters said.
"The [water] temperatures have been a bit above normal," meteorologist Rex Hervey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Data Buoy Center said Thursday,...
