Tropical Storm Danielle has now gained enough strength as it rages in the open Atlantic, that it has been upgraded to hurricane status. At this time, the storm system is still a significant distance from land.Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Danielle had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and predicted that the storm would become a hurricane by at Tuesday at the latest.

The strong winds from the southwest off the Atlantic coast should keep Hurricane Danielle from reaching North American land.