While Tropical Storm Franklin remains churning in the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center is tracking three other systems with a chance to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm including one that could threaten both peninsulas Florida and Yucatán.
In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC forecasts an area of low pressure could form by the weekend in the northwestern Caribbean Sea that would then migrate north toward the Gulf of Mexico.
“Some gradual development of this system is possible over the weekend and early next week, and a tropical depression could form while it moves slowly northward,” forecasters said,
The NHC gives it a 10% chance to form in the next two days and 50% chance in the next seven.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin moved away from land after lashing the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.
At 5 a.m. the storm was about 55 miles east-northeast of Grand Turk Island moving north at 13 mph with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and higher gusts. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 105 miles.
“On the forecast track, the center of Franklin will continue to move farther away from the Dominican Republic and over the southwestern Atlantic into theweekend,” forecasters said. “Gradual strengthening is forecast, and Franklin is expected to become a hurricane in a couple of days.”
There are no threats to land currently and all the tropical storm warnings that had been in place on Wednesday have been discontinued.
Farther east in the Atlantic are two more systems the NHC is watching.
In the central subtropical Atlantic is an area of low pressure with the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily that fell apart earlier this week.
Now it’s an area of low pressure located about 1,000 miles east-southeast of Bermuda that are still producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
“Upper-level winds are forecast to become more conducive for development later today, and this system is likely to regenerate into a tropical storm by Friday while the system moves northward over the subtropical central Atlantic,” forecasters said,
The NHC gives it a 70% chance to form in the next two to seven days.
Farther east are disorganized showers and thunderstorms from an area of low pressure located several hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.
“Despite marginal environmental conditions, slow development is possible and the low could become a tropical depression by the weekend while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward into the central tropical Atlantic,” forecasters said,
The NHC gives it a 20% chance to form in the next two days and 40% chance in the next seven.
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season has seen eight named storms so far with Idalia, Jose and Katia up next.
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