Hurricane Nadine Isn’t Expected to Form Soon, Hit Florida: Forecasters

After Hurricane Milton, how quickly will there be Hurricane Nadine?

Central Florida is bracing for Milton to make landfall in the coming hours, not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Big Bend region and then carved a path of destruction through the Southeast.

But already some residents are worrying whether another storm will slam into the state right after Milton.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 9, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a public advisory that it’s possible another Atlantic Ocean storm will form in the coming days — but not likely.

The NHC is currently tracking a weather system out in the Atlantic that is several hundred miles west of Bermuda and still far off the East Coast, moving north.

The NHC says there is a 40% chance in the next two to seven days that the system forms into a cyclone, which is the broadest category of phenomena that include depressions, storms and then hurricanes.

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In this case, the system, which is not yet named because it isn’t strong enough, is still not tropical, which means it doesn’t have the current potential to become a hurricane.

Still, according to the NHC, the system could get stronger in the near-term. 

The next named storm this year will be Nadine.

“Although environmental conditions are becoming less favorable for development, a short-lived tropical or subtropical storm could still form today [Wednesday] or this evening while the low moves northeastward to east-northeastward at around 15 mph,” the latest NHC advisory states.

After that, “upper-level winds are forecast to become too strong for further development later tonight,” the NHC said in its advisory.

The two other most recent named storms, Hurricanes Kirk and Leslie, also don’t pose any threat to the U.S.: Kirk has already hit Europe after moving east through the Atlantic; and Leslie is also projected to remain out in the ocean before quickly weakening by the weekend.

Separately, the NHC is tracking two tropical waves, one that is east of the Caribbean and one off the western coast of Africa. These large areas of low pressure can create tropical cyclones.

There have been 13 named storms so far this hurricane season, which ends in the Atlantic on Nov. 30.