Tropical storms Hermine and Ian form. Here’s what the forecast shows
Tropical Storm Hermine formed off the west coast of Africa on Friday, shortly followed by Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean Sea, becoming the eighth and ninth tropical storms of the 2022 Atlantic season.
Hermine is about 315 miles northeast of the Cabo Verde Islands and is not a threat to Florida or the rest of the United States, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 11 p.m. advisory. It is slowly moving north at near 10 mph.
Hermine has maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, with higher gusts. The storm could see some strengthening through Saturday and then weaken later in the night before becoming a remnant low on Monday.
Tropical Storm Ian formed in the Caribbean and is expected to become a hurricane next week as it heads toward Cuba and Florida. A potential Florida landfall is still on the storm’s track, possibly as a Category 3 hurricane. Forecasters are cautioning that there’s still a lot of uncertainty in its track.
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Meantime, Hurricane Fiona has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, and Tropical Storm Gaston is affecting the Azores. Neither syustem is a threat to Florida or the rest of the United States. Also on forecaster’s radar: a disturbance several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands that could see some slow development in the next several days as it drifts northwest or north over the central Atlantic.
The hurricane center says it has a 20% chance of formation through the next 48 hours and a low 30% chance of formation through the next five days.
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