Dean Strengthens...

As expected, Dean intensified into the season's first hurricane in the western Atlantic on Thursday morning and now poses a major threat to the central islands of the Lesser Antilles, Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.The system's forecast track would take it well south of Florida, and it's unlikely that it will swing this direction, the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County said.Because of a high pressure area to its north, Dean was taking a determined westerly course toward the Caribbean. It also was projected to intensify into a Category 4 system with winds of almost 140 mph within the next five days.

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