The slumbering Kraken of the Atlantic is beginning to stir.  Near the Cape Verdes Islands off the west coast of Africa, Tropical Storm Danielle portents that the 2010 Hurricane season’s most dangerous formations are awakening.  Per Jeff Master’s blog:

Danielle is a classic “Cape Verdes”-type of storm common during the peak part of hurricane season. Cape Verdes-type storms are so named because they form from tropical waves that come off the coast of Africa and pass near the Cape Verdes Islands just west of Africa. Cape Verdes hurricanes are the largest and most dangerous types of hurricane in the Atlantic, since they spend a long time over water have and have of opportunity to reach full maturity. Danielle is over warm 28°C water, is experiencing low wind shear of 5 – 10 knots, and is embedded in a moist environment–conditions which favor intensification into a hurricane by Tuesday.