At 500 PM AST (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Danny was located near latitude 14.5 North, longitude 49.1 West. Danny is moving toward the west-northwest near 10 mph (17 km/h), and this motion is expected to continue through tonight. A turn toward the west is expected on Saturday or Saturday night.
Maximum sustained winds are near 115 mph (185 km/h) with higher gusts. This makes Danny a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Danny is moving into an area of unfavorable upper-level winds, and weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours.
Data from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that Danny remains a very small tropical cyclone. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from the center and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km).
The estimated minimum central pressure based on earlier data fromthe NOAA aircraft is 974 mb (28.77 inches).