Hurricane Dean is now a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, moving across the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico with average winds of 125 mph and gusts up to 200 mph as of 5 a.m PDT Tuesday. Hurricane Dean was a Category 5 hurricane, the most-destructive rating, when it hit land on Monday. It is the worst Atlantic storm to make landfall in decades. Hurricane Dean is shown in this infra-red satellite image.
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