The National Hurricane Center reports Jerry has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane.
Hurricane Jerry now has 75 mile per hour sustained winds.
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The storm is still not expected to hit North Carolina. The cone of uncertainty has the storm tracking northwest until about Monday, when it turns northeast toward Bermuda.
We've got a giant area of high pressure moving across us over the next week and that will run into this storm like a snow plow and push it back out to sea. The models all pick up on this, but there is always a giant error in any model this far out. At this point, though, it stays away.
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