NHC monitors storms in Caribbean & Gulf of Mexico

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring two storm systems in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico that could put a damper on travel this week.

The storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico is the most likely to develop and is expected to cause heavy rainfall over its northwestern coast and in parts of southern Mexico and Central America.

The NHC reported that “a broad area of low pressure is forecast to form from this system” later Monday (June 17) or Monday night and that a “tropical depression or a tropical storm likely to follow by midweek.”

“Regardless of development, several days of heavy rainfall are expected across portions of southern Mexico and Central America, and these rains are likely to cause life-threatening flooding and flash flooding,” the NHC said Monday morning.

The second system being monitored is low-pressure and located over the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

While less likely to form a major storm—the NHC has predicted a 30 per cent chance of formation over the next week—it could still impact travel along the coast of the southeast U.S. later this week.

The NHC expects the system to form in the central Bahamas early this week and then move toward the southeast U.S. coast on Thursday or Friday.

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