Tropical Storm Jose forms as Idalia joins Franklin and 2 more systems in Atlantic
As what is now Tropical Storm Idalia heads into the Atlantic, it joins two more named storms and two with potential including the newest named system that popped up, Tropical Storm Jose. according to the National Hurricane Center.
Idalia hit Florida’s Gulf Coast in the Big Bend region on Wednesday morning and sped up through the state into Georgia and the Carolinas throughout the day and overnight.
Deadly Hurricane Idalia makes Florida landfall as ‘catastrophic’ major hurricane
By 8 a.m. Thursday, Idalia continued to have sustained winds of 60 mph after remaining a hurricane more than six hours beyond landfall. The center of the storm was located about 65 miles southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina moving east-northeast at 20 mph.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles, the NHC said.
“An eastward to east-southeastward motion is forecast to begin later today and continue through Saturday. On the forecast track, the center of Idalia will just offshore of the coast of North Carolina today. Idalia will then move over the western Atlantic into the weekend,” the NHC said. “Little change in strength is expected today, but some gradual weakening could occur Friday and Saturday.”
Tropical Storm Jose formed from Tropical Depression Eleven on Thursday morning.
At 5 a.m. its center was located about 785 miles east-southeast of Bermuda moving north at 5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.
Its projected to head into the path of Hurricane Franklin where it will be absorbed by the weekend. It’s no threat to land.
Hurricane Franklin, what had been the season’s first major hurricane before Hurricane Idalia spun up, is now a Category 2 system speeding across the Atlantic.
At 5 a.m. it was located about 200 miles north-northeast of Bermuda moving east-northeast at 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles
Bermuda is no longer under a tropical storm warning from the system.
“On the forecast track, the center of Franklin should continue moving away from Bermuda,” the NHC said. “Gradual weakening is forecast over the next few days.”
The NHC is tracking two more systems with potential to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. The next names on the list after Jose are Katia and Lee.
The more likely of the two is in the eastern tropical Atlantic, an area of low pressure located just west of the Cape Verde Islands with showers and thunderstorms becoming more organized.
“Environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to form over the next couple of days while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic,” forecasters said.
The NHC gives it a 70% chance to form in the next two to seven days.
In the central subtropical Atlantic are the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Gert.
“Earlier satellite wind data indicated that a well-defined circulation has re-developed with the remnants of Gert, located several hundred miles north of the northern Leeward Islands,” forecasters said. “However, shower and thunderstorm activity is currently limited.”
There is a short window for it to become more developed before conditions becoming unfavorable by the weekend as it moves to the northeast and east.
The NHC gives it a 30% chance to form in the next two to seven days.
