Computer models failed to predict Felix's intensification. The tempest exploded from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 51 hours.

Though Felix's remnants will be gone by Thursday, the season's seventh-named storm may be brewing off the coast of the southern United States, experts say.

Photograph by Lynne Sladky/AP

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