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Hurricane Sally Makes Landfall as It Batters Alabama With 105 MPH Winds

The storm had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday but regained strength and returned to Category 2 overnight.

The winds of Hurricane Sally reached 105 miles per hour in the early hours of Wednesday morning as the slow-moving storm finally made landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama. The National Hurricane Center said that Sally arrived on the coast at 4.45 a.m. CT. Meteorologists had downgraded Sally to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday, but it regained strength and returned to Category 2 before it made landfall. The storm is moving slowly at just two miles per hour. Meteorologists at the NHC have predicted that the storm may dump more than two feet of rain on the coast and inflict a storm surge as tall as nine feet on the shores of Mississippi and Alabama.