LOS ANGELES - Hurricane Larry, far out in the Atlantic Ocean, strengthened to Category 3 on Friday night as the busy 2021 Atlantic hurricane season continued.Larry was not expected to pose a threat to the U.S.
in the days ahead, except for the possibility of causing potentially "life-threatening surf and rip-current conditions" along the U.S.
East Coast next week, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, according to The New York Times.In other words, Larry's projected impact on the U.S.