An animation of satellite observations showing the birth of Hurricane Irene in the Caribbean and the storm's track past South Carolina into Canada.
You can see Irene's path is headed straight for South Carolina until a shift in the weather pushes the storm to the east.
At her strongest, Irene grew to a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale and made landfalls in North Carolina, New Jersey and New York.
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