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.

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By 11 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 85 miles southeast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina moving east at 20 mph.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles, the NHC said.

“A turn toward the east-southeast and southeast with a reduction in forward speed is expected on Friday, followed by a turn toward the east and northeast over the weekend,” forecasters said. “On the forecast track, Idalia will move away from the coast of North Carolina later today and tonight, and approach Bermuda over the weekend.”

Tropical Storm Jose formed from Tropical Depression Eleven on Thursday morning.

At 11 a.m. its center was located about 770 miles east of Bermuda moving north at 7 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 11 a.m. it was located about 265 miles northeast of Bermuda moving east-northeast at 14 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.

“A faster east-northeastward to northeastward motion is expected over the next few days,” forecasters said. “On the forecast track, the center of Franklin should continue moving away from Bermuda today. Gradual weakening is expected over the next few days, and Franklin is forecast to become an extratropical cyclone by this weekend.”

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.