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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Hurricane Fred Strengthens

Initially, Hurricane Fred was not expected to intensify beyond tropical storm strength. Now that storm is a category 2 storm and continues to grow. Fred may reach Cat 3 status before slowly dying as he moves to the north.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/09/09/tropical.storms/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn  (CNN)

    At 5 a.m. ET, Fred was packing winds of 105 mph (165 km/hr) and was about 500 miles (805 km) west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.

    Fred was moving toward the west-northwest near 13 mph (20 km/hr) and was expected to turn toward the northwest and then the north-northwest over the next few days as its forward speed decreases



posted by KWR | 6:50 AM

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