(Reuters) - Florence has strengthened into the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.
The category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale is located about 1,405 miles (2,265 kilometers) east-southeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph), the Miami-based weather forecaster added.
(Reporting by Harshith Aranya in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
