Humberto Is Season’s First Hurricane as Gabrielle Drifts
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Hurricane Humberto, the first such system of the season, strengthened in the Atlantic west of the Cape Verde Islands as Tropical Storm Gabrielle weakened after passing Bermuda.
Humberto’s maximum sustained winds increased to 85 miles (137 kilometers) per hour from 80 mph earlier. It was declared a hurricane at 5 a.m., missing the record for the tardiest big storm since satellites began watching the Atlantic in 1967. The mark for the latest that such a powerful storm has formed is held by 2002’s Gustav, born at 8 a.m. on Sept. 11, said Dennis Feltgen, a National Hurricane Center spokesman.