Three Potential Tropical Storms Could Form at Once
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring three areas of storm development, all of which have a low possibility of forming at the same time within the next two days.
Over the past week, NHC meteorologists have been monitoring a system in the Caribbean Sea that has growing potential to strengthen into Tropical Storm Patty. The storm’s path, should it form, is still unclear, though there’s a chance that it could take aim at Florida, which recently battled two, back-to-back major hurricanes, Hurricane Helene in late September and Hurricane Milton in early October.
As of Friday morning, the NHC is monitoring two new systems—one in the northeastern Caribbean and one in the north Atlantic.
Of the three systems, the southwestern Caribbean one has the highest chance of development, with a 30 percent chance of strengthening within the next two days and a 70 percent chance in the next seven days.
The other two systems each have a 10 percent chance of strengthening.
“We continue to monitor multiple areas for tropical development,” the NHC posted on X, (formerly Twitter) on Friday morning. “In particular an area in the SW Caribbean has a high (70%) chance of development, a broad area of low pressure is expected to develop and a tropical depression is likely to form late this weekend or early next week.”
Newsweek reached out to the NHC by email for comment.
