A rare hurricane watch has been issued for the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Tropical Storm Kyle strengthened to hurricane force off the US east coast with winds of 75mph (120km/h), the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
It is the first hurricane watch issued for Maine in 17 years, the US National Weather Service reported.
It is projected to make landfall near the Maine-New Brunswick border late Sunday or early Monday, the NHC said.
The alert comes on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Juan, which killed two people and caused millions of dollars of damage in Canada's Atlantic provinces.
Kyle is the 11th named storm of the season, which has already brought extensive damage and hundreds of deaths in Caribbean nations.
(BBC)
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