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Come on, Irene

| 08.25.11

The hurricane tracker we designed for MSNBC a few years ago has been pressed back into service, with Hurricane Irene barreling up the East Coast with 115mph winds lashing the sea just east of Fort Lauderdale:

The crazy thing (for me, an ex-New Yorker) is that it looks like they might actually get some pretty serious winds as far north as New York:

Published: 08.25.11
Updated: 09.20.22

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