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RE: Hurricane Dennis

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Hurricane Dennis made landfall in the south-east of Cuba on Friday, bringing torrential rains and winds of up to 240km/h .
The main body is due to hit in about three hours….
The storm is expected to pass east of the capital, Havana, travelling into the Gulf of Mexico before hitting southern Florida at the weekend.

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RE: Two tropical storms

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Tropical Storm Cindy
Tropical Storm Cindy was preparing to make landfall over south-eastern Louisiana on July 5, 2005, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA`s Aqua satellite captured this image.

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At the time, National Hurricane Centre reported the storm to have winds of 70 miles per hour, just 4 miles per hour under hurricane status. After coming ashore near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Cindy moved northeast, drenching Alabama with rain. Though the storm left thousands without power and triggered some flooding, no serious damage has been reported.

Tropical Storm Dennis
The swirling clouds of Tropical Storm Dennis span from the northern tip of Venezuela to the southern half of the island of Hispaniola in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image.

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NASA`s Terra satellite captured this image on July 6, 2005, at 15:05 UTC (10:05 a.m. local time) when Dennis was building to winds of 110 kilometres per hour. The storm is moving northeast across the Caribbean and should pass between the eastern arm of Haiti and Jamaica, hammering both with four to eight inches of rain. The National Hurricane Centre predicts that Dennis may become a major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, by July 8.

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Two storms are forming in the Atlantic Basin.

The National Hurricane Centre said a depression near the Dominican Republic had developed into tropical storm Dennis, and could hit Florida, US, on Friday.
Dennis is expected to strengthen in coming days and could be a hurricane by the time it reaches Florida.

Cindy located in the Gulf also became a named storm, and is expected to come ashore tomorrow but is not forecast to reach hurricane status.

"July 5 is the earliest date on record for four named storms to have formed in the Atlantic Basin" - Richard Pasch, National Hurricane Centre forecaster.