Tropical Storm Danielle Stirs Up Caribbean’s Quiet Start Of Hurricane Season

Weather forecasters are monitoring a system in the Atlantic that may enter the Caribbean on Friday, becoming the first storm to visit the region in nearly two months.

According to the New York Times, the storm was “strengthening quickly throughout the evening” of Thursday.

The National Hurricane Center has reported that the system, now named as Tropical Storm Danielle, is strengthening with maximum winds of 60 mph. The center is currently watching if the storm is likely to land.

Forecasters have also been keeping an eye on two disturbances in the Atlantic, the New York Times further reported.

“One that was several hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, and one near the Cabo Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa,” the report said.

The hurricane center noted that “no tropical cyclones formed in the basin during August,” calling it “unusual” since the last time this happened was in 1997.

“Based on a 30-year climatology (1991-2020), three or four named storms typically develop in August, with one or two of them becoming hurricanes,” the center said in a statement posted on Twitter.

In the small island of Dominica, the government is making the most out of the unusually quiet start of the hurricane season this year. Its projects for the ambitious Housing Revolution continue, with the prime minister visiting the construction site of a project just recently.