 Burrell strengthened into a hurricane yesterday as it moved towards the southeast Caribbean. Now, forecasters warn it's expected to strengthen into a dangerous major hurricane before reaching Barbados late today or early Monday. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan says... Hurricane Burrell has rapidly strengthened. We just had the formation of Tropical Depression II. Now it's a hurricane moving very quickly toward the west at 22 miles per hour. So it's going to be approaching the Windward Islands during the day Sunday and into Sunday night and Monday.