Hurricane Earl is no more, TS warning still in effect for Newfoundland

The remnants of Hurricane Earl took aim at Nova Scotia early Saturday after a brush with the Northeast that was far less intense than feared, dumping heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages accustomed to nor'easters.

Late Saturday, Earl's center was moving north-northeast at 46 mph.

Earl dulled quickly over the course of 36 hours. By midday Friday, it had dropped to a Category 1 storm - down from a fearsome Category 4 with 145 mph winds a day earlier. At 11 p.m., it was downgraded to a tropical storm, then into a post-tropical storm late Saturday evening.

Officials planned to survey the damage from the storm at daybreak, but early reports showed only a few hundred power outages, a handful of downed power lines and isolated flooding in Massachusetts.

Earl swooped into New England waters Friday night as a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph after sideswiping North Carolina's Outer Banks, where it caused flooding but no injuries and little damage. The rain it brought to Cape Cod, Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard was more typical of the nor'easters that residents have been dealing with for generations - except this one disrupted the unofficial last weekend of summer.

Winds on Nantucket blew at around 30 mph, with gusts above 40 mph. The island got about 1.5 inches of rain, while adjacent Martha's Vineyard got more than 3 inches.

Earl has become a post-tropical storm and is about 180 miles southwest of Mary's Harbour Labrador in Newfoundland.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre has discontinued the tropical storm warning for the Magdalen Islands, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. A tropical storm warning is still in effect, just in case, for Newfoundland from Stones Cove to Boat Harbour.