The difference a few hundred miles can make over the open ocean is proving to be the difference between a strengthening Hurricane Danny and a storm that just might get blown apart by strong upper level winds.

Forecasters have been saying that Danny had been in an area of light wind shear for the past few days. This anomaly in an El Nino season was expected to be short lived and it appears now, based on satellite information , that it was.

The latest advisory on Hurricane Danny issued by the National Hurricane Center showed that the maximum sustained winds had dropped to 100mph. Yesterday afternoon those winds were about ten miles an hour stronger.  The movement of the storm continues to be west northwest at about ten miles per hour.

The official track from the Hurricane Center takes the center of circulation through the Leeward Islands during the day Monday. The intensity forecast has Danny downgraded to a tropical storm by as early as Sunday as the drier air and upper level wind conditions will continue to impede any strengthening of the system.

The tracking models continue to show the demise of Danny as well. Many of the models are not even picking up on Danny after a few more days. The general consensus is that Danny will become a tropical depression by  mid week and then will be  pushed off to the north and east away from the U.S. mainland by the middle of next week.

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