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Katia now strong category 4

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06-09-2011 | 07:43

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Hurricane Katia has powered up to a major Category 4 storm on Tuesday, but is expected to veer away from the U.S. East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned however that U.S. East Coast beaches should still watch out in the coming week for large swells generated by Katia which could cause life-threatening coastal surf and rip currents.

Experts from the Center said that wind speed is expected top reach 215km per hour and may get faster as it reaches the Eastern Coast. "Even though these storms may stay offshore, they still can be a deadly threat, especially to people going to the beach ... That would be the greatest threat" from Katia, NHC hurricane specialist Robbie Berg told Reuters.

Forecasters and residents of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard have been keeping an anxious eye on Katia after Hurricane Irene raked up the East Coast from the Carolinas to Maine last weekend. It killed at least 40 people and caused extensive flooding, especially in New Jersey and Vermont.

Katia, the second hurricane of the June-through-November Atlantic season, had kept forecasters guessing for days about its potential threat to the United States.

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