Hurricane DannyDanny was gathering strength on Thursday as it nosed towards Cape Cod on the north-eastern coast and possibly Canada, forecasters said, urging locals to stay on their guard. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre said the storm had top winds of 60 mph and could become a hurricane by Saturday. It could potentially make landfall on Cape Cod, the Massachusetts peninsula that houses the Kennedy family compound where Senator Edward Kennedy died this week.
But that path could change, forecasters said.
Located 370 miles east-northeast of Nassau on the Bahamas, and 575 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the storm was expected to gather speed and veer to the north on Friday. “Slow strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days,” the NHC said. Danny previously was used to name a July 1997 hurricane that brought record rain fall for Alabama, at least 36.71 inches on Dauphin Island.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Danny is likely to be formed into the season's second hurricane later in this week. The eye of Tropical Storm Danny was located approximately 445 miles east of Nassau and 775 miles south to southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Currently, the Tropical Storm Danny is at 45 miles per hour. It is not a Category 1 hurricane which requires wind speeds of at 75 miles per hour. Danny was expected to follow a northwesterly track through Thursday, staying north and east of the Bahamas. The storm was then expected to turn north on Friday before curving to the northeast over the weekend, the forecaster AccuWeather.com said, on a similar path of last weekend's first hurricane of the 2009 season, Bill.
