The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season is a current event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the northern hemisphere. The season officially began on 1st June 2015 and will end on 30th November 2015. Read more at: http://blog.worldweatheronline.com/2015/09/10/reign-hurricane-danny/

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The Reign of Hurricane Danny

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The 2015 Atlantic hurricane season is a current event in the
annual tropical cyclone season in the northern hemisphere.
The season officially began on 1st June 2015 and will end on
30th November 2015.
Danny originally formed on Tuesday 18th August 2015 as
‘Tropical Depression Four’ and then strengthened into a
tropical storm later on that day.
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What does the report say?
Danny then became a hurricane on Thursday 20th
August 2015 and peaked as a Category 3 with maximum
winds up to 115mph on the afternoon of Friday 21st
August 2015. This made Danny the first major hurricane
of the 2015 hurricane season.

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What happened?
A “wall of wind” towards the Caribbean quickly
weakened Hurricane Danny around Saturday
22nd August – Monday 24th August 2015. Wind
shear can blow storm activity away from the
centre of a tropical cyclone.
In addition to this, the westerly winds
transported more dry air into the circulation of
Danny. The dry air is also stable, meaning that it
suppresses vertical columns of air needed to
maintain thunderstorms. All of this ended in
Hurricane Danny’s demise.

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Real time Radar Images
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) research plane sent
back real time radar images from a
hurricane for the first ever time.
According to the NOAA’s Hurricane
Research Division, Tropical Storm Marco in
2008 had gale force winds extending out
only 12 miles from the centre whereas
Danny’s storm winds extended up to an
estimation of 60 miles from the centre.

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