Hurricane center tracking system likely to develop in the Caribbean
Published in News & Features
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a system that is likely to develop over the next few days in the southwestern Caribbean sea.
In the 8 a.m. tropical update, NHC said some gradual development is possible toward the end of the week and over the weekend when the system begins to drift northward or northeastward over the southwestern and south-central Caribbean Sea.
NHC gives the system 30% chance of development over the next seven days.
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has produced 15 named storms so far, including 10 hurricanes. Three of those struck Florida. It also has now had two potential tropical cyclones, the first of which did not develop before making landfall back in September, but the two are the reason the NHC is up to 15 in its naming scheme, despite only 13 storms being named.
Hurricane season runs through Nov. 30.
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