Hurricane Katia is seen from the International Space Station in this NASA handout picture taken August 31, 2011 and released on September 1, 2011. Photograph by: NASA/Handout, Reuters
MIAMI [Reuters] - Hurricane Katia strengthened rapidly over the open Atlantic Sunday, bulking up to a powerful Category 2 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The Miami-based hurricane center said it was still too soon to gauge the potential threat to land or to the U.S. East Coast from the storm, but cautioned that it was well worth keeping an eye on Katia due to a westward shift in its track over warm seas.
"It would be a good idea for people on the (U.S.) East Coast just to keep watching this storm," said Robbie Berg, an NHC hurricane specialist.
"There is so much uncertainty in this forecast, it's really too early to say what kind of impacts we might see," Berg told Reuters.
At 11 a.m. EDT, Katia had top sustained winds of 100 miles per hour and was located about 360 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, the NHC said.
It said Katia could become a "major" hurricane by Monday, with maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph.
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