ORLANDO, Fla. _ September is proving why it's considered peak hurricane season as another tropical wave with very high chances of developing into a tropical depression moves in the direction of Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. update.
A low pressure system located over the central tropical Atlantic has become more organized as it slowly moves west where environmental conditions for tropical storm development are ideal.
The system has a 60% chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next 48 hours, and a 90% chance of doing so over the next five days, the NHC said. It could eventually become Tropical Storm Imelda.
A tropical depression forms when a low pressure area is accompanied by thunderstorms and produces winds below 39 mph. If and when the system gains more structure and maximum sustaining winds over 39 mph it will become a tropical storm.
A second system in the Gulf of Mexico has lost steam and structure, according to the NHC.
Little development is expected before it moves inland along the northwestern Gulf coast Monday night or Tuesday morning.
