Danielle, the first hurricane of the cyclonic season in the Atlantic basin, remains "almost stationary" in open waters with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km / h), but it does not represent a danger to land, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported this Friday.
The closest territory to Danielle is the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores Islands, which is 895 miles (1,425 kilometers) away.
Danielle presents a "stationary motion"although meteorologists forecast that "turn slowly to the northeast early next week".
The NHC, based in Miami (Florida) foresees in its most recent bulletin that the system will be strengthened somewhat more during the next 48 hours.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 30 km from the center and central and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 km.
Danielle’s origin is in Depression Five, which formed on the first day of September, after a rare August free of storms and hurricanes, which had not happened for 25 years.
In the first three months of the six of the season (June, July and August) tropical storms Alex, Bonnie and Colin have formed.
Danielle came to break the tranquility that has prevailed in the Atlantic since the beginning of July.
The private weather forecasting company Accuweather noted that since 1960 there have only been three such August months without cyclone activity. The previous ones were in 1961 and 1997.
The NHC is also monitoring two areas of low pressure in the Atlantic.
One is located east of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and has a 50% chance of becoming a tropical depression as it slowly moves west-northwest toward adjacent waters north of the Leeward Islands, between the Caribbean Islands. American and British Virgins, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
On the other hand, a tropical wave accompanied by a large area of low pressure, located just off the west coast of Africa, has a low probability (10%) of becoming a tropical or subtropical depression.
