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August 30th, 2008
Posted: 05:25 AM ET
(CNN) — Gustav’s top winds increased to 110 mph (155 km/hr) as it approaches the western tip of Cuba Saturday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Now a category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, forecasters warn Gustav could grow to be a Category 4 hurricane as it barrels toward the U.S. Gulf Coast for a landfall late Monday or Tuesday. However, conditions could weaken the storm to a Cat 3 status before landfall, they said. The NHC’s map of Gustav’s projected path places a U.S. landfall anywhere from around Galveston, Texas eastward to Mobile, Alabama. New Orleans, still recovering from Katrina three years ago, is in the middle of that “cone of uncertainty.” As of 5 a.m. ET Gustav, located about 255 miles (410 km) east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba, was moving northwest at about 12 mph (19 km/hr) on a path that should take it over the western tip of Cuba Saturday afternoon. |
 
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