The storm is expected to turn toward to the northwest before slowing down a bit later today and is likely to gradually strengthen into a tropical storm by tonight.
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Tropical Depression 9 remains a poorly organized depression moving into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the 5 a.m. Monday tropics advisory.
The depression’s maximum sustained winds early Monday were near 35 miles per hour with some strengthening expected during the next two days.
But it could develop into a tropical storm and make landfall Thursday anywhere from Panama City to south of Tampa Bay, according to the latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
A tropical depression northwest of Cuba headed farther out into the Gulf of Mexico Monday but is expected to hook back and strike Florida later in the week as a tropical storm.
The depression that’s upgraded to a tropical storm first will be named Hermine. Isolated areas could get up to 7 inches.
The system will funnel heavy rain across much of central and southern Florida this week, which could lead to flash flooding.
The Weather on the 1s team is also watching two other tropical systems in the Atlantic Basin – Tropical Depression Nine and Hurricane Gaston.
AccuWeather meteorologist Ed Vallee said that the North Carolina Coast will be threatened by drenching showers, thunderstorms and rough surf this week.
Two tropical depression will threaten the United States this week. The storm was located about 575 miles (930 kilometers) east southeast of Bermuda. Forecasters issued a tropical storm watch for the north part of the coast, from Cape Lookout to the Oregon Inlet, warning that strong winds could be felt by Tuesday afternoon. Forecasters say it posed no immediate threat to land. A new tropical wave coming out of Africa today has a medium chance of becoming the next tropical depression or storm over the next five days.
Madeline is a Category 1 storm and is about 750 miles east of Hawaii. “In addition, wind will begin to approach tropical storm force on some of the Gulf waters along with building seas”. There are now five tropical systems between the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans, plus one more typhoon in the West Pacific. Forecasters say it could become a tropical storm later in the day or overnight.
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The Atlantic hurricane season runs through November 30.
