Katia Reaches Hurricane Strength as Tropical Cyclone Looms in Gulf

Don’t look now, but Katia—that’s pronounced KA-tee-uh—just tipped from intensely simmering over to boiling in the middle of the Atlantic, becoming the second named hurricane of the season. Katia’s creeping across the ocean at 18 miles per hour, about 1,050 miles east of the Leeward Islands (around 1,700 southeast of Bermuda) with maximum sustained winds

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Katia Reaches Hurricane Strength as Tropical Cyclone Looms in Gulf

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