TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Leslie turned into a hurricane early Saturday in the eastern North Atlantic.
overabout 700 miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.
It's moving west-northwest at 7 mph late Wednesday.
The outlook is for Leslie to continue to gradually strengthen this weekend as to moves to the west, then northwest, through early next week.
Leslie is a distant Atlantic storm and will not threaten land anytime soon, if at all.