The movie begins with an image on August 25 when Danny was just a low pressure area, east of the Bahamas and not yet named. The movie continues through Danny's formation and classification as a tropical storm during the morning of August 26, to the beginning of its journey up the U.S. East Coast today, August 27 at 2:25 p.m. EDT.
Danny's maximum sustained winds at 11 a.m. EDT today, August 27 were near 60 mph, and slow strengthening is expected. He was located near 27.5 north and 73.1 west, or 550 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Danny is moving northwest near 13 mph, and is expected to turn north. Danny had a minimum central pressure near 1006 millibars.
NASA's GOES Project created a movie of satellite data from August 25-27 showing the progression of Tropical Storm Danny from a low near Bermuda to his status as a tropical storm.
(Photo Credit: NASA/GOES Project, Dennis Chesters)
This is a still of GOES-12 movie of Tropical Storm Danny from Aug. 27, 2009.
(Photo Credit: NASA GOES Project)
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center