Tropical storm Kyle now a hurricane

[Soul Sequence]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tropic...cane_0927.html
MIAMI (AFP) — Tropical Storm Kyle, poised to strike the Atlantic coast at the US-Canada border late Sunday, has turned into a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.

"Reports from an Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour) with higher gusts," the Miami-based center said in a bulletin.

"Kyle is a category one hurricane" on the five level Saffir-Simpson scale, it said. "Some additional strengthening is possible during the next 24 hours."

At 2100 GMT, Kyle was located about 315 miles (505 kilometers) west-northwest of the island of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean, or about 486 miles (780 kilometers) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, the center said.

The storm was churning north at a relatively brisk clip of 23 mph (37 kmh) and was expected to veer northeastward in coming hours.

"The center of Kyle is forecast to be near eastern New England or the Canadian maritimes late Sunday," the NHC said.

Canada posted a hurricane watch and tropical storm warnings in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick provinces, and a tropical storm warning was in effect along the coast of the northeastern US state of Maine.

[clarkkent]

so weird...a hurricane with my name, and my ex GF was named karina, pretty close to katrina! crazy