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Hurricane Irene - August 26 2011

by

Nasa/NOAA/Novapix

Reference

t-nua01-01160

Date

2011-08-28

Irene, the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season, was poised on August 26 to be the first to make landfall in the United States since 2008. More than 50 million people were estimated to lie within the path of the storm as it headed toward the major U.S. population centers of Norfolk, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.