Will Florida Be Hit by Another Hurricane Right After Milton? Forecasters Don't Think 'Nadine' Is a Threat Soon

Mar. 15, 2025

AfterHurricane Milton, how quickly will there be Hurricane Nadine?

Central Florida is bracing for Miltonto make landfall in the coming hours, not even two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Big Bend region andthen carved a path of destructionthrough the Southeast.

But already some residents are worrying whether another storm will slam into the state right after Milton.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 9, the National Hurricane Center (NHC)said in a public advisorythat it’s possible another Atlantic Ocean storm will form in the coming days — but not likely.

The NHC is currently tracking a weather system out in the Atlantic that is several hundred miles west of Bermuda and far off the coast of Georgia and Florida, moving north.

The NHC said Wednesday afternoon there is currently a 30% chance in the next two to seven days that the system forms into a cyclone, which is the broadest category of phenomena that include depressions, storms and then hurricanes.

The NHC had said previously that the system could become a “short-lived” and less powerful storm.

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The system, which is not yet named because it isn’t strong enough, is still not tropical, which means it doesn’t have the current potential to become a hurricane.

According to the NHC, the system’s chances of getting stronger in the near-term are also decreasing.

“Environmental conditions are becoming less favorable for tropical or subtropical development today [Wednesday] while the low moves northeastward to east-northeastward at around 15 mph,” the latest NHC advisory states.

After that, “upper-level winds are expected to become too strong for further development tonight or on Thursday [Oct. 10],” the NHC said in its advisory.

The next named storm this year will be Nadine.

The two other most recent named storms, Hurricanes Kirk and Leslie, also don’t pose any threat to the U.S.: Kirk has already hit Europe after moving east through the Atlantic; and Leslie is also projected to remain out in the ocean before weakening “through early next week.”

Separately, the NHC is tracking two tropical waves, one that is east of the Caribbean and one off the western coast of Africa. These large areas of low pressure can create tropical cyclones.

In the case of the wave off of Arica, “environmental conditions appear only marginally favorable for some limited development of this system,” the NHC said.

There have been 13 named storms so far this hurricane season, which ends in the Atlantic on Nov. 30.

source: people.com