Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are keeping a close watch on a new system of “disorganized showers and thunderstorms” off the Leeward Islands, that could become Tropical Storm Humberto.
And they say the next named storm, “could form from a tropical wave that is approaching the Caribbean in the next five days, or a new system that popped up even closer to Florida and the Bahamas”.
According to the NHC, “Its five day track could bring it over the lower Bahamas or to the east in the Atlantic”.
The NHC “puts a 20 percent chance of that within five days”.
“By mid week, environmental conditions could become more conducive for development when the disturbance reaches the southwestern Atlantic Ocean,” the NHC said.
“Some slow development of this system is possible during the next several days while the low moves westward across the central tropical Atlantic Ocean, ” the NHC said.
The chances that this system becomes a tropical depression are rated “at 20 percent in the next 48 hours and 40 percent in the next five days”.
According to the NHC: “If either one of the tropical wave investigations become a tropical depression, it would be the 9th depression of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season.
“If it then grows to maintain at least 39 mph sustained winds, it would become Tropical Storm Humberto.”
The NHC also noted that we’re in the peak season period of the 2019 hurricane season, which is between mid-August and late October.
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