text:  Barrel has now strengthened into a hurricane, marking the first official hurricane of 2024. ABC News meteorologist Dan Amirante says warm conditions fueling the storm. So the track from the National Hurricane Center takes it through the windward islands of the western Antilles, so over towards Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and then it's going to go into the Caribbean Sea before then making a run in the direction of Jamaica. So we'll have to keep an eye on that.