The National Hurricane Center said one of the two potential tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean would become Tropical Storm Elsa within the next day or so.
As summer winds down, temperatures cool, and rain starts to fall, different parts of the U.S. prepare for some potentially devastating storms that are a result of such changing weather. Florida kept a look out for Hurricane Hermine earlier this week but it has now died down to a tropical storm. And as Floridians are in the clear, residents in Hawaii are preparing for Hurricane Lester to hit over the weekend.
With hurricane season ramping up, weather experts say they expect 2016 to be one of the most active seasons experienced in several years. We're seeing evidence of this with the increasing number of storm systems churning in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Hurricane experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as well as with AccuWeather are closely monitoring a tropical system over the northern Leeward Islands that has potential to strengthen significantly and become Tropical Storm Hermine, the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season, by this weekend. The system poses a threat to land, as well as a distinct possibility of striking the Florida Peninsula from the southwest as a hurricane, the first hurricane to make landfall in that area and from that direction since Katrina in 2005.
Hurricane Season 2016 is picking up steam, with Tropical Storm Gaston having formed in the Atlantic on Monday. Tropical Storms Fiona and Kay still linger in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (respectively), while three additional weather systems out at sea are all projected to strengthen to tropical cyclone status, and at least one expected to become the eigth named tropical storm in the Atlantic later this week.
According to recent reports from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Hurricane Center (NHC), the 2016 hurricane season is forecast to be the strongest and most active storm system experienced since 2012. Currently brewing in the Pacific is the 11th named storm of the season, while the Atlantic Ocean's sixth tropical storm churns over open waters, expected to continue on rapidly over the next 24-48 hours.
According to information provided by National Hurricane Center (NHC) Air Force hurricane hunter plane, which has been tracking a strong tropical weather system throughout the Caribbean this week, that system has official been upgraded to tropical storm status.
The tenth named storm of the season, Hurricane Joaquin, is poised to hit the Central Bahamas sometime Thursday morning, before possibly progressing to the eastern coast of the U.S.
Tropical Storm Vance, which was a strong Category Two hurricane just yesterday, is rapidly weakening in the Eastern Pacific and was downgraded to tropical storm status on Tuesday.
Although meteorologists don’t expect the strong force that Hurricane Vance is delivering to last too much longer, the storm system was still measured as a category two hurricane in the Eastern Pacific as of Monday afternoon.
Hurricane Vance is rapidly intensifying off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean and strengthened from a Category One to a Category Two storm on Sunday night.
Residents living on the south and southwestern coasts of Mexico are being pummeled with tropical storms this hurricane season, and as of Wednesday evening yet another tropical depression has formed in the area and is forecast to become a tropical storm by Thursday.
On Wednesday morning a tropical depression in the East Pacific strengthened into yet another tropical storm, adding to the extensive tally of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season.
Though still a Category One storm, Hurricane Norbert has grown stronger as its eye passes south-southwest of Cabo San Lazaro, Mexico and leaves massive flooding through parts of the country in its wake, weather experts report.
Tropical Storm Norbert, currently off the west coast of Mexico, has officially been upgraded to a hurricane as of Wednesday. Norbert is the ninth named storm in a busy hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific, reports say.
A tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic Ocean and according to weather experts the conditions are right for the disturbance to strengthen into a tropical storm. If the depression does form into a more organized system, Tropical Depression Bertha would become the second named storm of the 2014 hurricane season.
Before you whip out the barbeque grill or plan a day at the Beach for the holiday weekend, make sure to check the weather forecast as a looming storms threatens to hit the East Coast just in time for the Fourth of July.
Beginning as a tropical depression off the coast of Mexico on Monday, Boris escalated on Tuesday into the second named tropical storm of the 2014 Pacific season.
