National Hurricane Center monitor system near The Bahamas with 60% chance of formation

Posted: Friday, September 11, 2020. 11:29 am CST.

By BBN Staff: The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring several disturbances in the Atlantic.

Besides, Tropical Storms Paulette and Rene, the NHC is monitoring a trough of low pressure that is located over the north-central Gulf of Mexico. This system has only 10% chance of development.

However, closer eyes are on a broad area of low pressure that could be forming between the northwestern Bahamas and South Florida.

This system is forecasted to move westward at about 10 mph, crossing the Bahamas and Florida today and tonight and moving into the eastern Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. 

The disturbance could become a tropical depression while it is near South Florida tonight, but it is more likely to become a tropical depression while it moves slowly west-northwestward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico this weekend and early next week, NHC reports.

Regardless of development, this system is expected to produce locally heavy rainfall over portions of the Bahamas, South Florida, and the Florida Keys during the next couple of days,

This system has a 60% chance of formation within the next 48 hours.

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