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Hurricane forecasters highlighted two new disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday morning, including a potential area of low pressure that could bring rain to the Gulf Coast. The low-pressure system could form in the next couple of days near southern Florida, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 7 a.m. Thursday.
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National Hurricane Center tracking 2 new disturbances, including one that could impact Florida
New on the Hurricane Center's tropical outlook map are two disturbances, including one expected to move across Florida into the Gulf. ➤ Weather alerts via text: Sign up to get updates about current storms and weather events by location
Hurricane Humberto, which had been racing ahead of Imelda, dissipated Wednesday after passing west of Bermuda on Tuesday. Its remnants were named Storm Amy by U.K. forecasters, who warned it would affect much of Ireland and the U.K. starting Friday.
The National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. Thursday update reported that Category 1 Hurricane Imelda is in the Atlantic Ocean, 230 miles east of Bermuda. With maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, the hurricane is moving east-northeast at 30 mph. Imelda is forecast to become an extratropical storm.
Imelda was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Tuesday and threatened to bring hurricane conditions to Bermuda by Wednesday evening.
Hurricane Imelda is now closing in on Bermuda, just one day after Hurricane Humberto brushed the islands on Tuesday. And as of 11 a.m., the National Hurricane Center has issued its final advisory on Humberto, which has weakened and is no longer classified as a hurricane.
Forecasts for early October indicate that there's almost certainly more activity to come. On Oct. 2, two new potential storms were developing.