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As Tropical storm Elsa approaches, Cuba has evacuated 180,000 people across the island due to fears that it could cause severe flooding after three people were killed across the Caribbean.
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.
Storm Nicole, belived to be originated from Bermuda is seen to be substanially weakining across the atlantic while Hurricane Mathhew continues to leave swathes of damage in its wake.
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.
