Heavy rain could be headed within days to islands in the northern Bahamas where teams are still searching for hundreds of people missing since Hurricane Dorian struck. It's "not the best news for an area that's already been hardest hit by Hurricane Dorian, with heavy rain and very strong winds," CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said early Thursday, referring to the Category 5 monster that less than two weeks ago slammed the archipelago nation. The brewing storm system also may move across the Gulf of Mexico, possibly impacting coastal areas from the Florida Panhandle to Texas. It comes as the Atlantic hurricane season reaches its statistical peak in the weeks surrounding September 10, a period when weather conditions favor storms forming quickly.
There's a 70% probability that a tropical depression or a tropical storm could form by Saturday from the area of low pressure now near the Turks and Caicos, the National Hurricane Center predicted Thursday morning. It would be named Humberto if it reaches tropical-storm strength.
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