HURRICANE SEASON OF 1998 IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

«DANIELLE»

August 24^th-September 3^rd

It originated from a tropical wave traveling from Africa in the morning of the 24th some 2,500 km East of the Lesser Antilles. The tropical depression was ranked that very afternoon as tropical storm Danielle with a well structured cloud pattern. It underwent a quick process of intensification and in the morning the next day its maximum winds reached the strength of hurricane. At daybreak the 26^th they were of about 165 km/h reaching the category 2 in the Saffir-Simpson scale. However, that day it entered a highly sheared environment and later, in the 29^th and the 30^th it went after the steps of Bonnie, which caused a weakening in the intensity of its winds until 120 km/h and a certain disorganization in the cloud pattern. Once it left behind all the unfavorable conditions and started its recurve it reorganized, showing a well defined eye since the early hours of the 31^st. The wind speed reached 160 km/h and the minimum central pressure 965 hPa. It kept these characteristics until the evening of September the 1^st, when it had started moving Northeast. It kept this direction weakening and turning into a hurricane of minimum intensity until the afternoon of the 3^rd, when it started a process of extratropicalization. Danielle characterized for being a hurricane of small diameter and by not affecting any land.

Hurricane Danielle, September 1, 1998 (20:45 UTC)

«EARL»