Ophelia haunts Fla. coast
After spinning off the east coast of Florida all week, gradually gaining strength, Ophelia finally became a hurricane today. The storm is the seventh of the season to reach hurricane strength, with top sustained winds nearly 75 mph. It continues to idle off the east coast of Florida, about 75 miles north northeast of Cape Canaveral. Its hurricane winds are fairly limited in breadth, so no hurricane warnings have been posted yet on shore. The storm is expected to strengthen, but seems likely to move slowly north and east, avoiding a continental landfall.
Here is the storm track. And here is the view from space. This one, too, looks like a miss.
