Forecasters are warning Nova Scotians to prepare for the storm.
Hurricane Earl is making its way toward the eastern seaboard and could very well make landfall anywhere from Maine to Eastern Newfoundland.
Chris Fogerty with the Canadian Hurricane Centre says Earl is now a category four storm, with maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometres per hour.
Fogerty says the movement of the storm is hard to predict.
"We have a forty per cent chance of gale force winds affecting western Nova Scotia (by Friday). And there is a possibility... of about five to ten percent chance of hurricane force winds reaching the province, " says Fogerty.
Fogerty says people should make a plan, purchase supplies and secure their homes in order to safely weather the storm.
He says higher impact areas along the coast will face stronger winds in a severe storm.