Hurricane experts are warning of two more potential tropical storms racing toward the US, just days after Hurricane Milton tore through Florida leaving more than a dozen dead.
Hurricane season is well under way and, with more than a month to go, the National Hurricane Center has already began keeping tabs on two potential storms heading toward the US.
A tropical disturbance in the eastern Atlantic Ocean has been flagged by the NHC as a potential tropical depression.
Currently, the disturbance, which has been called Invest 94L by the NHC, is just west of the Cabo Verde Islands.
While the storm became more organized this morning, officials still believe it lacks enough organization of thunderstorm activity to be considered a tropical depression, said the NHC.
Further development is not expected until at least the middle of the week, but a close watch is being kept after Hurricane Milton developed from a category one to a category five storm in less than 24 hours.
If Invest 94L develops into a tropical storm, it will be called Tropical Storm Nadine, which is next on the list after Milton.
Fox Weather Hurricane Specialist, Bryan Norcross, said: ‘[It will] proceed on a westerly path that could take it near the northeastern Caribbean islands in about a week. The disturbance could arrive as anything from a developing tropical disturbance to Tropical Storm Nadine, to a messy surge of tropical moisture.’
Storm Nadine is expected to be short lived and believed to have a 50 percent chance of forming.
Tropical Storm Leslie was also flagged by the NHC but is not expected to make landfall in the US.
The storm was in the center of the Atlantic, with winds at 50mph and moving at 10mph northeast, but since the NHC advisory these winds have decreased.
The storm is around 1,400 miles away, and moving in the opposite direction, according to the Mirror.
Forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center of the NOAA National Weather Service issues a warning in May that the hurricane season was going to be ‘above normal’.
The NOAA has predicted a total of 17 to 25 named storms, which means they will have winds of 39mph or more.
Out of the eight to thirteen of the named storms predicted to develop into hurricanes, four to seven major hurricanes – category 3 or higher with winds of 111mph or more – are predicted to develop.
One of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the US, Hurricane Helene killed more than 200 people, reported CNN.
President Joe Biden sent 1,000 active-duty soldiers to North Carolina to help with the response to Hurricane Helene, the White House announced.
Hurricane Milton was labeled ‘dangerous’ and ‘catastrophic’ after it hit sustained winds of 160 miles per hour when it made landfall late Wednesday evening.
More than three million homes and businesses were without power Thursday morning as the first casualties were reported even before the hurricane made landfall.
Milton is said to have caused $50 billion in damage, according to President Biden’s statement on Friday, and is said to have killed at least 16 people, reported Daily Mail.