 Barrel's now the first hurricane of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, the storm strengthening into a Category 1 storm roughly a day after it formed. Barrel is located in the central Atlantic. It's a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles at the moment. It did strengthen very quickly. It went from not even a named storm late last night to now the first hurricane of the 2024 season. ABC News meteorologist Dan Amirante.