GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The tropics are heating up again and a tropical system in the central Caribbean may potentially form into the next hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
As of Sunday evening, this system is known as Potential Tropical Cyclone Twenty-Six. The system is not yet well organized enough to be classified as a tropical depression. Although, warms waters and increasingly favorable environmental conditions indicate the system will strengthen over the northwestern Caribbean Sea in the next several days.
Once a closed low-pressure system forms and winds remain sustained at 39 to 73 mph, it will take the next name on the Greek Alphabet -- Tropical Storm Delta. This is forecasted to take place by Monday evening.
The National Hurricane Center has the path of the storm reaching the Louisiana shoreline by 2 pm Friday. Forecasted currently to make landfall as a Category 2 hurricane.
It is important to remind users that the average 4- and 5-day National Hurricane Center track forecast errors are about 160 to 200 miles. This means that there is a great deal of uncertainly in regards to the track and development of this storm.
Stay with 13 On Your Side all week long for updates on this developing storm.
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