DANNY IS NOW the first hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season.
At 11 a.m the centre of the eye of Hurricane Danny was located by satellite near latitude 12.5 degrees north, longitude 44.8 degrees west, or about 1 090 miles east of the Windward Islands.
Danny is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 miles per hour (19 kilometres per hour) and this general motion is expected to continue for the next couple of days, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts. Some additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.
Danny is a small tropical cyclone. Hurricane-force winds only extend outward up to 10 miles (20 km) from the centre and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km).
The estimated minimum central pressure is 992 mb (29.30 inches). (NB)
