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ReutersTropical Storm Noel strengthens, threatens HaitiSun Oct 28, 2007 6:24pm EDT
By Michael Christie
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Noel strengthened
on Sunday as it crept over the Caribbean and threatened
to lash impoverished Haiti with potentially deadly rains,
U.S. forecasters said.
The storm, with top sustained winds of 60 miles per hour
(95 km per hour), was moving slowly toward Haiti's
southwestern peninsula and was expected to head
toward southeastern Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said.
While the storm's track was highly uncertain, the
hurricane center forecast it was likely to curve back to
the northeast near the end of the week and head out
over the Bahamas into the Atlantic rather than into the
Gulf of Mexico and its important U.S. oil and gas
facilities.
It was also unclear whether Noel, the 14th named storm
of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, would have an
opportunity to strengthen into a hurricane with winds
of at least 74 mph (119 kph) because that would
depend on whether it stayed over warm water or spent
more time over land.
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