As Nicholas dissipates, two more named storms could develop this weekend
This week marks the climatological, or historical, peak of hurricane season, and, right on schedule, the Atlantic is roaring to life with another round of tropical trouble. At least two additional named storms are possible by early next week, including one that could slip between the Eastern Seaboard and Bermuda and another poised to track through the Atlantic’s “Hurricane Alley.”
It comes just days after Nicholas made landfall southwest of Galveston, Tex. as a Category 1 hurricane, bringing winds gusting to 95 mph and up to 14 inches of rainfall, spurring pockets of flash flooding and a damaging coastal storm surge. Flash flood watches remain in effect from Acadiana and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana through coastal Mississippi and Alabama and as far east as the Florida Panhandle.
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Nicholas marked the nineteenth named storm to make landfall in the Lower 48 in the past 17 months, representing a period of hyperactive tropical activity that appears virtually unmatched in the historical record.
Tropical weather specialists continue to highlight the likelihood of a continued above-average season, with a number of additional storms likely to develop. Last year’s record-busy season produced named storms all the way to December.
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Next tropical storm of 2021 season on the horizon
AccuWeather forecasters continued to watch a budding tropical system, dubbed Invest 96L by the National Hurricane Center, off the East Coast of the United States on Thursday, and they say it could become the next tropical depression or storm of the season at any time through the rest of the week. Although it is expected to remain out to sea, it will stir some dangerous impacts along the Atlantic coast into this weekend.
The system, which AccuWeather forecasters have been monitoring since this past weekend, has drifted to within a couple of hundred miles of the Carolina coast as of Thursday. Satellite images revealed that a circulation has developed in the lowest part of the atmosphere where tropical systems dwell.
The system was struggling a bit to get its act together due to disruptive northerly winds and dry air in the vicinity, but there are other factors that favor strengthening.
Waters in the Gulf Stream are in the 80s F offshore of the Carolinas and near 80 off the mid-Atlantic coast this week. Water temperatures of 78 degrees or higher are considered favorable to allow a tropical storm to develop and strengthen.
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