FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Danielle formed Friday in the central Atlantic, and experts are watching another system near the Caribbean that could become a tropical depression overnight, according to the National Hurricane Center.
After emerging as Tropical Storm Danielle on Thursday, the system intensified overnight and became the first hurricane of the season Friday morning. It has little chance of affecting land.
As of 5 p.m. Eastern time Friday, Danielle was located about 895 miles west of the Azores with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph as it sits stationary. The system is now a Category 1 hurricane, the fourth named storm of the hurricane season, and the first in nearly two months.
