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                <h1>Hurricane Irma Packing 110 <span class="caps">MPH</span> Winds and Headed West Over Atlantic</h1>
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                      <p> While Texas is still struggling to recover from Harvey, more trouble was brewing Saturday out in the Atlantic — and its name is Irma. </p>
                      <p> Packing 110-mile-per-hour winds and expected to remain a hurricane in the coming days, Irma was about 1,220 miles from the Leeward Islands in the West Indies as of 11 a.m. ET, and marching west at a steady 15 mph clip, according to the latest <a href="https://newsconnect.nbcuni.com/thread/311704">National Hurricane Center bulletin</a>. </p>
                  
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                      <p> The NHC said earlier that "Irma is expected to be a major hurricane when it moves closer to the Lesser Antilles early next week." An updated advisory Saturday morning referred to it as a "smaller hurricane" and that "some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours." </p>
                      <p> So does it pose any danger to the Harvey-battered U.S.? </p>
                      <p> "We don't know yet," Dennis Feltgen, a NHC spokesman and meteorologist, told NBC News. "It's just too far away." </p>
                      <p> Still, it's moving closer. When Irma was declared a dangerous <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT1+shtml/311448.shtml">Category 3 hurricane</a> at 5 p.m. Thursday, it was about 3,000 miles southeast of Miami. It was downgraded slightly to a Category 2 on Saturday, but is expected to continue alternating in intensity. </p>
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