FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Danielle formed Friday in the central Atlantic, just one day after August came and went without a named storm for only the third time since 1961, 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.
As of the 11 a.m. Friday advisory, Danielle was located about 885 miles west of the Azores with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph moving west at 1 mph. The system is now a Category 1 hurricane, the fourth named storm of the hurricane season, and the first in nearly two months.