Strong upper level winds sheared the top off of Hurricane Danny on Saturday and it weakened to tropical storm intensity.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Danny was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 54.7\u00b0W which put it about 480 miles (775 km) east of the Leeward Islands and about 1760 miles (2840 km) east-southeast of Miami, Florida.\u00a0 Danny was moving toward the west at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Watches have been issued for Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Gudaloupe, St. Barthelemy and St. Martin.<\/p>\n
A upper level trough over the eastern Caribbean Sea generated brisk southwesterly winds over the top of Danny and blew the upper portion of the circulation northeast of the low level center.\u00a0 By late Saturday afternoon the low level center was exposed on satellite imagery.\u00a0 The vertical wind shear disrupted the vertical circulation of Danny and it weakened fairly quickly.\u00a0 A few more thunderstorms appear to have developed northeast of the center in recent hours and the wind shear may have decreased just slightly.\u00a0 Danny will move over slightly warmer water on Sunday, which could add a little more energy to the circulation.\u00a0 The wind shear is forecast to continue and Danny could weaken further.<\/p>\n
As Danny weakened, the lower portion of the circulation was steered more by the winds closer to the surface.\u00a0 Those winds pushed the center more toward the west.\u00a0 The subtropical ridge that was steering Danny is expected to strengthen and Danny is forecast to move toward the west for the next day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Danny could be near the Leeward Islands in about 30 hours and it could be approaching Puerto Rico in 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strong upper level winds sheared the top off of Hurricane Danny on Saturday and it weakened to tropical storm intensity.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Danny was located at latitude 15.6\u00b0N and longitude 54.7\u00b0W which put it about 480 miles (775 km) east of the Leeward Islands and about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[138,51,140,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}