(Reuters) - Lee has strengthened to become the fifth major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday.
Lee, now a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, was about 1,765 miles (2845 km) west of the Azores, packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km per hour), the NHC said.
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