National Hurricane Center places Florida in red zone as midterms near
A little more than a month after Hurricane Ian swept across the state, causing widespread devastation and killing dozens of people, a new area of low pressure has been detected more than 200 miles north of Puerto Rico just two days before the midterm elections.
Though voting on Election Day in Florida likely won't be threatened by a landfall, the system brewing in the distance could have its far reaches extend to the state by Tuesday.
A five-day graphical tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center, located in Miami, shows the eastern half of the Florida peninsula covered in a red zone signifying the projected area where the system could strengthen into at least a tropical storm, one step below a hurricane. The formation chance within the next five days is 90%.
"Regardless of development, there is an increasing risk of coastal flooding, tropical-storm-force winds, heavy rainfall, rough surf, and beach erosion along much of the southeastern United States coast, the Florida east coast, and portions of the central and northwestern Bahamas beginning in the early to middle part of this week," the hurricane center's outlook added.
The Atlantic hurricane season stretches from June 1 to Nov. 30. If this system becomes the next tropical storm, it will be named Nicole. There is another disturbance much farther out in the Atlantic Ocean, which may also form into a tropical storm. The next name after Nicole is Owen.
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