The storm is several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, and is moving west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph.
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The storm is forecast to move toward the Caribbean Sea, which puts it in an area that isn’t favorable for tropical development.
A cluster of strong showers and thunderstorms in the Atlantic Ocean has organized and developed into a tropical depression, StormCenter7 Meteorologist Brett Collar said.
Tropical Storm Danny, the fourth named tropical system of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, has formed.
The NHC predicts the storm will be a category 1 by Friday and category 2 by Saturday, just east of the Caribbean.
The storm is expected to strengthen rapidly into a hurricane late on Wednesday or during Thursday as it slowly tracks westwards across the tropical North Atlantic.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC), Tropical Depression Four (TD4) had maximum sustained winds are near 35 miles per hour (55 kph). “So we have plenty of time to watch this”, National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen told The Miami Herald.
Danny is forecast to become a hurricane and could threaten the island chain next week. Assuming future Danny holds together that long, we will have a better idea at this time next week as to which direction his path will go.
However, exactly where the warming of the equatorial Pacific waters takes place and the magnitude of that warming plays at least a partial role in the number of Atlantic named storms.
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“It’s really anyone’s guess right now”, Keim said. There have been three named storms, but none reached hurricane strength, which is maximum sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or higher.
