A Warm Atlantic Stokes Hurricane Fears

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NYTimes.com: "Stretching from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean is a band of warm water several hundred miles wide where most Atlantic tropical storm systems “spin up,” gaining speed and size as they move toward the eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico.

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