Hurricane Isaias is a typical storm — but it’s also ‘astounding’

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Something strange just popped up in the Gulf of Mexico: a hurricane. Well, not so much Hurricane Isaias, which strengthened into a Category 3 before its predicted landfall along the Florida Panhandle late Friday. It’s more the timing of it: This is the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, which began all the way back in June. That smashes the previous record in the satellite era for the latest…

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