NU Online News Service, June 21, 12:30 p.m. EDT

The National Hurricane Center reported the first hurricane of the 2010 season over the weekend, making it the third named storm so far of the season.

The weather service first spotted Hurricane Celia as a tropical depression on Saturday and upgraded it to a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday afternoon with sustained winds of 75 mph.

By early Monday morning, Celia, located 330 miles off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico, was reported to have sustained winds of 80 mph. The weather service said the storm posed no threat to land as it headed west.

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