Because Igor is now a tropical storm.
Igor is not much of a storm yet, and is showing no clear pattern of increased intensification. However, Igor's current path will take the storm through a region where there will be very little to weaken it and a great deal of very warm water to strengthen it. There is a possibility that Igor will drift to the north, which would cause the storm to weaken. If not, there is a high potential of a large and powerful hurricane. Details.
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Technically, Igor is no longer a tropical storm, but the National Hurricane Center had decided to let Igor keep it's Tropical Storm Symbol and that status that goes along with that for the rest of the day. If Igor shapes up and gets its act in gear, then, well, we'll see.
We always knew Igor had what it took to be a hurricane, despite early, and rather embarrassing, fluctuations in intensity. Now, Igor is a Category Four hurricane with prospects for additional strengthening.
Births
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist
That's "Eye-gore".
What hump?
Damn! Benton beat me to it!
Walk this way.
If you have read Pratchett´s "Discworld" novels, you know Igors are a respected, useful part of society, although they may sometimes have too many body parts attached (if the late uncle Frim had a perfectly good left hand, it would be a shame to waste it).
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Scene from "the Super":
Radio: "The new hurricane has been named "El Negro"
Thurgood: "Yes! They have finally named something after us black folks!"
Radio: "El Negro is estimated to become the most destructive hurricane of this century"
Thurgood: "DAMN!!!"