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Tropical Storm Earl joins Danielle as season picks up

After nearly two months of tropical silence, Friday picked up steam with the formation of the season’s first hurricane followed by another tropical storm.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 5 a.m. advisory, Hurricane Danielle had lost some power to revert to Tropical Storm Danielle, and it continued to slog along about 70 mph west of the Azores in the mid-Atlantic while Tropical Storm Earl that formed late Friday is located about 115 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands.

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