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Hurricanes Fred and Linda both lose steam
Miami (AFP) Sept 10, 2009 Hurricanes Fred and Linda both lost their punch Thursday and the sibling storms were expected to fizzle in coming days without threatening land, forecasters said. Fred, the latest storm to cause a ripple over the Atlantic coalesced hundreds of miles (kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands off the west African coast, and never had much of a chance of making landfall. Fred weakened to a category one storm in the eastern Atlantic where its "maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour)" and it was expected to lose its forward momentum, the US National Hurricane Center reported in a 2100 GMT advisory. "Fred is expected to diminish to a tropical storm by Saturday," according to the NHC. This year's Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1 and ends November 30, has seen a handful of tropical storms but just one other major one, Hurricane Bill, which grazed the US east coast and eastern Canada last month. Meanwhile in the Pacific, Linda also weakened further and was on the brink of being downgraded to tropical storm status, the Miami-based NHC said. "Maximum sustained winds are near 75 miles per hour (120 kph)," it said, just one mile per hour above the tropical storm-hurricane threshold. "Gradual weakening is expected over the next couple of days," the NHC added. Linda, which became the sixth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season less than 24 hours earlier, was at 2100 GMT about 1,325 miles (2,130 kilometers) west of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Atlantic Hurricane Fred hits major category threeMiami (AFP) Sept 9, 2009 Fred strengthened Wednesday to a major category three hurricane as it barreled over the eastern Atlantic but was in no danger of hitting land, US forecasters said. Packing sustained winds approaching 120 miles per hour (193 kilometers per hour), the eye of Hurricane Fred was about 869 km (540 miles) west of the Cape Verde islands as of 1500 GMT Wednesday, satellite images showed. "Fred ... read more |
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