Joaquin became a hurricane this morning and is slowly strengthening.
Very complicated, very low confidence forecast.
Some comparisons have been made to Sandy. That's not really accurate. Sandy was a large quasi-tropical system during much of its approach to the United States. Joaquin is a hurricane, fully tropical, and will remain that through Sunday evening-Monday morning (when it'll either be onshore or shooting off toward Bermuda and Atlantic Canada). This means its windfield is considerably smaller. It may be considerably more intense than Sandy.