On Thursday, the National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on two other tropical cyclones that are intensifying in the Atlantic.
Although there is currently no direct threat to land from Hurricane Kirk or Tropical Storm Leslie, they could send additional rain to areas still suffering from Hurricane Helene’s aftermath.
The NHC reports that Kirk, which was downgraded to hurricane status on Tuesday night, is currently a Category 3 storm but is predicted to strengthen over the following three days. It may become a Category 4 storm as it passes across the central Atlantic in a northwesterly direction.
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With maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour and a minimum central pressure of 948 millibars, the NHC has classified this storm as a major hurricane. The distance between it and the Northern Leeward Islands is 1,185 miles east.
As a result, the NHC issues a warning that when swells from Kirk start to move westward, the Leeward Islands, Bermuda, the Greater Antilles, and the U.S. East Coast may experience life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
Leslie became a tropical storm on Wednesday night, and the NHC predicts that it will continue to travel slowly westward through Thursday night before accelerating to the west-northwest during the weekend.
Assuming a minimum central pressure of 1002 millibars and maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, the NHC anticipates that the system will intensify into a hurricane within the next day or so. Presently, it is situated 515 miles southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands; nonetheless, there are currently no land-affecting threats.
However, the NHC is more interested in an area that is situated in the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Peninsula and the Gulf Coast might receive several inches of rain from this area of showers and thunderstorms, according to the report, which is expected to move very slowly.
It is not anticipated that this system would provide significant rainfall to areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia that were severely affected by Hurricane Helene.
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