Tropical Storm Otto has just been upgraded to Hurricane Otto. As of the 11AM National Hurricane Center advisory, Hurricane Otto was located at 25.9N 64.0W, which is approximately 445 miles south of Bermuda. The maximum sustained winds of 75 mile per hour make Otto a minimal hurricane. The minimum central pressure has fallen to 979 millibars.

Otto is currently moving ENE at approximately 17 miles per hour, and is expected to continue this motion for several days. The projected path of Otto, according to the National Hurricane center in Miami, is one which will continue to take it ENE until Monday morning. At this time Otto will likely be a subtropical system, and begin moving to the South East. The system should not have any major affects on land in the next 5 days.

Otto is the 8th hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. The season, which has been above average in the number of named storms, has been relatively quiet in terms of landfalls in the United States.