Dean is Gaining Strength and Power.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 10:15 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 10:15

Photo from NOAA.

The NHC said in an advisory issued shortly before 11 a.m. EDT that the center of Dean was located about 1,030 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands and about 1,490 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.

Dean was moving westward at about 23 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph.

The NHC said Dean could strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 74-95 mph in two to three days and a Category 2 (winds of 96-110 mph) or Category 3 (winds of 111-130 mph) storm in four or five days.

The NHC plans to issue another advisory on Dean at 5 p.m.

Most of the weather models show Dean will reach the Leeward Islands over the next several days, with most models putting the storm in the area of the Virgin Islands.

The Leeward Islands include the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Saint Martin, Saba, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe and Dominica.

He's going to the Virgin Islands, then Puerto Rico, and Florida and Georgia, then South Carolina, North Carolina, then Virginia and then he's going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House!!!!!!!!!

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

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