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Kate Strengthens into Hurricane


FILE - A man takes photos while standing on a cliff in Bermuda, island shores are battered by winds from an approaching Hurricane. Kate, formerly a tropical storm, has strengthened into the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season.
FILE - A man takes photos while standing on a cliff in Bermuda, island shores are battered by winds from an approaching Hurricane. Kate, formerly a tropical storm, has strengthened into the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season.

Kate, formerly a tropical storm, has strengthened into the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.

Kate, now a category 1 hurricane, was located about 260 miles (420 km) north of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (120 kph), the Miami-based weather forecaster added.

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