The sustained winds of hurricane fiona increased in the last few hours to 85 miles per hour (mph), confirmed the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in their provisional 2pm bulletin
The cyclone, which became a hurricane this morning category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale will pass near or over the southwest of Puerto Rico in the next few hours.
Fiona is the third hurricane this season, whose cyclone activity was below average. Climatologically, September 7 forms the third hurricane of a cyclonic season in the tropical basin of the Atlantic Ocean, according to the professor and hurricane expert, Philip Klotzbach.
To date, six cyclones have formed, three of which are storms and the rest hurricanes. A seventh low pressure system was monitored by the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English), but its cyclonic development never materialized.
By next Wednesday, when it is already in the southwestern Atlantic at a safe distance from Puerto Rico, Hurricane Fiona could even become the first force majeure hurricane (category 3 to 5) this season.
The NHC reported in its most recent bulletin that the barometric pressure has dropped to 986 millibars (mb), according to records from two hurricane-hunting aircraft.