Hurricane
Isaac remained deep in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday with 115 mph
winds and posed no immediate threat to land, forecasters said.
Isaac had
strengthened since becoming a named storm on Thursday. Its maximum
sustained winds increased from 39 mph to 120 mph, then dropped
back to 115 mph on Sunday.
Satellite
photographs Sunday showed its once well-defined eye had become
slightly less organized, said Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist
at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Sunday evening,
Isaac was 1,525 miles east of the Leeward Islands, at the eastern
edge of the Caribbean, and was moving west-northwest at 12 mph.
``We are not
saying it will never be a threat to land, but it will be at least
several days before that's possible,'' Pasch said.
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