Danny Becomes Hurricane in the Atlantic
August 20 2015 - 01:00PM
Dow Jones News
MIAMI—Atlantic storm Danny strengthened into a hurricane around
midday on Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The agency said Danny's maximum sustained winds had increased to
75 miles an hour, as the storm was 1,090 miles east of the Windward
Islands, moving to the west-northwest at 12 miles an hour.
Danny is the first hurricane of the 2015 season in the Atlantic
Ocean.
The storm's forecast five-day track shows it possibly
approaching the Windward Islands early on Monday as a hurricane and
then potentially approaching Puerto Rico as a tropical storm.
The storm doesn't currently pose a threat to any land, the
Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, stormy weather in Texas on Thursday was affecting
some oil operations. Valero Energy Corp. said lighting caused a
fire at a transformer serving the company's 245,000-barrel-a-day
refinery in Texas City.
Local media said lightning also struck a tank used to store oil
in Crystal Beach, forcing a temporary shutdown of the Intracoastal
Waterway because black smoke.
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