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Joseph Hammann, Staff Writer
As the hurricane season continues to take effect, the National Hurricane Center began documenting two storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean’s basin that have started to take form over the past several days.
According to reports, one of these two systems has potential to develop into a tropical depression as the week presses forward.
This tropical disturbance has been designated as AL94 and located in “broad areas of low pressure” and has started producing a plethora of disorganized rain and thunderstorms. It sits near the U.S. Virgin Islands, but according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, “The path into Florida is currently blocked, but that may change over time if the position and strength of the weather shifts.” Provided the storm system avoids the path of the Florida coast, it will likely remain more seaward, in contrast to Helene and Milton, which both provided devastating landfalls to North Carolina to Florida in the Southeast Us
Whatever new storm forms from AL94 will be given the name “Nadine”, and is the fourteenth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which is above the average of the amount of named storms in the season.
Photo of Hurricane Katrina, 2005, which these hurricanes are often being compared to
Nadine was also the name of a hurricane in the Atlantic in 2012, but unlike the potential 2024 Hurricane Nadine, the 2012 hurricane hit closer to the United Kingdom than the United States.
Even though Nadine only recently formed into just a tropical storm, another storm in the Atlantic formed into a hurricane. Oscar, the tenth hurricane of the season, is estimated to die down over the next several days. Hurricane warnings are already in effect in the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as the Bahamas. Oscar started with 40 mile per hour winds before picking up to 80 miles per hour in less than three hours, forming what is known as rapid intensification. Hurricane Oscar is the 5th tropical storm or hurricane this season to undergo this phenomenon.
Last Sunday, Tropical Storm Nadine made its landfall on Belize with 50 mile per hour winds and widespread rainfall of four to eight inches throughout that area and also in parts of Guatemala and Mexico. It is expected that by October 22, the rainfall amounts will increase to 12 inches.
