Hurricane Bill Update

A NOAA plane investigated Hurricane Bill Wednesday and confirmed Bill's continued Category Four strength, with maximum sustained winds of 135mph. However, the hurricane hunters did measure 152mph winds at flight level during one pass through the storm. Bill will maintain major hurricane strength as it continues to move over very warm ocean waters the rest of this week with low wind shear. By this weekend, though, Bill will pass into cooler Atlantic waters as it turns north and northeast, possibly brushing New England and Nova Scotia, and is accelerated northeast as a large upper-low moves through the Northeast U.S. and Eastern Canada.