ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two areas for possible tropical development, including one area off the coast of Florida that will bring tropical downpours.
The area, designated Invest 92L, is 120 miles east of Jacksonville.
Hurricane Hunters were sent to investigate Friday morning and found it has developed a well-defined center and has maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. However, the NHC said the showers and thunderstorms with the system are not organized enough to be considered a tropical cyclone.
To become a tropical system, News 6 meteorologist Jonathan Kegges says it has to have a well-defined center, which the Hurricane Hunters found, and it also has to have thunderstorms developing around its center. As of Friday morning, the system is struggling to maintain thunderstorm activity.
If the storms organize a little more, it could develop into a short-lived tropical depression before reaching the coast of Florida or Georgia later Friday.
There is a 60% chance of development in the next 48 hours. Regardless of whether it develops into a tropical depression, impacts from the storm will be the same.
The NHC is forecasting another area of low pressure to form over southeastern Mexico and northern Central America later Friday.
It is expected to move over the Bay of Campeche on Saturday, and it could develop into a tropical depression over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico over the weekend.
It has a 50% chance of development in the next 48 hours and a 60% chance in the next seven days.
Hurricane season runs through November.