It said Danny was traveling west-northwest at 10 mph (16kph) with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (i60kph), located 740 miles (1,180 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands.
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it expected Danny to turn toward the west later Saturday and weaken further.
In Haiti, the Office of Civil Protection issued a statement on its Facebook page saying the storm’s current location poses no threat to the country.
NOAA and Air Force Reserve Unit reconnaissance aircraft will investigate Danny again Saturday afternoon. Over the next few days, the system is forecast to run into wind shear, which can tear it apart, and dry air that may rob it of strength.
Meanwhile, on the Central Pacific Ocean, another tropical storm is predicted to intensify and grow.
On his Twitter account, McNoldy also provided a photo comparing Hurricane Danny’s predictions to other storms of the past.
The first hurricane of 2015 in the Atlantic continued its westward march while losing some of the intensity that made it a Category 3 hurricane at its peak.
There’s an even smaller chance that one of these storms will transform into a major hurricane.
Hurricane Danny has become a tropical storm as it continues to weaken near the Lesser Antilles.
Danny is slowly moving to the West at 14 miles per hour . It said the storm now only has 75 miles per hour sustained winds and a pressure of 991 mb.
It has been the longest stretch of time to pass without a major hurricane hitting the United States since reliable record keeping began in 1850, a 2015 NASA study said.
Forecasters are predicting the storm will “continue to weaken” as it moves across the Atlantic.
Hurricane Danny is a compact storm but it has a nice satellite presentation on Friday morning. Now he is only 660 miles from the Leeward Islands.
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A NASA GOES Project animation of visible and infrared imagery of Hurricane Danny was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to show the development and movement of the storm. As an example, look at the photo below showing Hurricane Danny compared to Hurricane Bill in 2009.
