The two tropical systems that are expected to enter the Gulf next week both formed on Thursday in the Atlantic Basin.
If one of the storms is much stronger than the other, then the larger system tends to absorb the smaller one, without necessarily increasing in size.
The Fujiwhara Effectwas was named after Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara who first described it in the early 1920s. The longer-range forecasts for the path and intensity of this tropical system are still relatively uncertain, but it could bring storm surges, rainfall and strong winds to parts of Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Florida this weekend and early next week, before affecting portions of Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama and Georgia, according to the NWS.
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