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Tropical Storm Danny moves toward northeastern US coast
Miami (AFP) Aug 27, 2009 Warnings were issued for parts of North Carolina on Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Danny's arrival on the US east coast, but forecasters said the weather system was "disorganized" and had lost strength. The storm still looked likely to bring strong winds and heavy rain to much of the east coast, including Massachusetts, where mourners were preparing to pay their last respects to Senator Edward Kennedy, who died there Tuesday. At 0000 GMT, Danny's top winds had decreased to 50 miles (85 kilometers) per hour, and the weather system was moving north at just six miles (nine kilometers) per hour, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. "Disorganized Danny moving slowly northward," the center's bulletin said. Forecasters said they expected the storm to turn northwest on Thursday evening, and then head north, gaining more speed, on Friday. Earlier, forecasters had said Danny could become a weak hurricane on Saturday, possibly hitting the northeastern US coast as well as the Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. A tropical storm warning was issued for the North Carolina coast from Cape Lookout northward to Duck, and the NHC said, "interests elsewhere from the Carolinas northward... should monitor the progress of Danny." The storm could bring drenching rain and gusty winds to coastal Massachusetts just as President Barack Obama was to give a eulogy at Saturday's Boston funeral for Edward Kennedy, who died Tuesday in Hyannis Port at the age of 77. Kennedy's body will lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library for the public to pay respects ahead of Saturday's mass. At 0000 GMT, the NHC said Danny's center was about 515 miles (825 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. "Slow strengthening is possible during the next day or so," the NHC said. The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on November 30. Hurricane Bill, the first of the Atlantic storm season, was downgraded Monday to a mere storm as it swept over Canada's easternmost province of Newfoundland. So far 2009 has seen one of the calmest starts to the hurricane season in a decade, which researchers have attributed to the development of an El Nino effect in the Pacific. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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