Miami, (EFE).- The first hurricane of 2022 in the Atlantic formed this Friday from tropical storm Danielle but does not represent danger, according to data from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) from USA
The closest territory to Danielle is the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores Islands, which is 885 miles (1,425 km) away.
Danielle is moving slowly west near 1 mph (2 km/h) and its maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 mph (120 km/h), which may strengthen in the coming days.
According to the NHC, Danielle will meander over open ocean for the next two days, then slowly turn northeast early next week.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from the center, and central and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 115 miles (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.
