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Article: Hurricane Bill grows more menacing.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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By Jonathan M. Katz
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
The first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season gathered force far out to sea Monday, while two weaker storm systems drenched the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Panhandle with rain.
Hurricane Bill gained strength and became a Category 2 storm late Monday night, with winds whipping at 100 mph. I t moved on a track expected to be near Bermuda by the end of the week.
The storm is very large, with tropical winds extending out 150 miles, so Bermuda faced a potential threat even if the Atlantic island avoided a direct hit, said Nick Camizzi, a forecaster with ...