Ophelia is on the cusp of becoming the seventh hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, and people hundreds of miles away from the center of the storm are already feeling its effects. Conditions will continue to deteriorate as Ophelia advances northward, causing a weekend washout for parts of the East Coast. As of 8 p.m. EDT, Ophelia was a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, just 4 mph shy of being upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane. The center of the storm