Tropical Storm Humberto is forecast to become a major hurricane in the central Atlantic, but the next system expected to develop, which would be named Imelda, may become a larger threat to parts of the Southeast U.S. and Bahamas as the hurricane season shifts into a higher gear following Hurricane Gabrielle.

There is still a lot of uncertainty as to the details of how this will all shake out into next week, so please check back with us at weather.com for important updates in the days ahead as the forecast gradually becomes clearer.

Here’s our latest thinking, including a potentially strange wild card from this pair of systems.

Tropical Storm Humberto Will Become A Hurricane

Tropical Storm Humberto is located about several hundred miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. It’s moving toward the northwest and is no threat to neither the Leeward Islands nor the rest of the Caribbean.

The storm is gaining strength and is forecast to become the season’s third hurricane this weekend. Humberto could be of some threat to Bermuda early next week, but is unlikely to be a direct U.S. threat.

Future ‘Imelda’ An Increasing Concern For The U.S.

A tropical wave currently moving through Hispaniola — designated as Invest 94L — will continue wringing out showers with locally heavy rain and gusty winds to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands today. This activity will then spread to eastern Cuba and the Bahamas.

This tropical wave brought widespread rainfall of 1 to 4 inches across Puerto Rico, with the heaviest totals being reported across the southern parts of the territory. No surprise that this heavy rainfall brought some flood and landslide reports across Puerto Rico highways, with one car being washed out with people still inside. All flood advisories have expired across the territory as the bulk of the heaviest rainfall has moved to the west.

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