Hurricane Florence Weather Update: Category 3 storm could pose threat to East Coast, Bermuda

Hurricane Florence is still way out in the Atlantic Ocean, but the Category 3 storm could threaten the East Coast of the U.S. by late next week.

The first major hurricane of the 2018 season, Florence on Wednesday morning had maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was about 2,000 miles from the US coastline, still way too far out for a confident landfall prediction.

Still, the European and American computer models on Wednesday morning showed a menacing hurricane coming dangerously close late next week to North Carolina's Outer Banks, a significant shift westward from earlier model runs. Other predictions, though, showed Florence staying 500 miles offshore.

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