NU Online News Service, Aug. 18, 1:45 p.m. EDT
After weeks of a very quiet Atlantic hurricane season, tropical storm activity erupted swiftly, with three named storms popping up over the weekend--one that could potentially become a major storm.
The first hurricane of the 2009 season, which began June 1, is Hurricane Bill, a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with sustained winds of 100 mph as of this morning, the National Hurricane Center said today.
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