NU Online News Service, Aug. 27, 3:19 p.m. EDT
Tropical Storm Danny is expected to avoid North Carolina skirting the coast of the Outer Banks, but it could impact Massachusetts with near hurricane force winds between Saturday and Sunday, forecasters said.
The National Hurricane Center is telling the public from the Carolinas north to New England to monitor Danny as it makes a northwesterly turn off the off the Bahamas. A tropical storm warning could be issued for that stretch, the NHC said.
Danny, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, is forecast to possibly become a hurricane by Saturday off the coast of Virginia and Delaware. The storm could make landfall along the coast of Rhode Island or Massachusetts some time Saturday into Sunday.
On his WunderBlog at www.wunderground.com, Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for Weather Underground, said a trough of low pressure on Friday night could strengthen Danny turning it into an extra-tropical storm. He said landfall in Cape Cod, eastern Maine or Nova Scotia with 55 mph to 75 mph winds "is a good bet."
Mr. Masters said forecasters are watching a tropical wave off the coast of Africa as it moves westward. The wave could become a tropical storm by next week.
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