TAMPA, Fla. — While Florida is no longer any threat from a tropical system now that then-Hurricane Idalia has moved through the state, the tropics are still active in the Atlantic.
The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Jose formed Thursday morning over the Central Atlantic. But it's not something the United States or Florida needs to worry about.
In fact, the NHC says within the next couple of days Jose will be absorbed by Hurricane Franklin.
Franklin remains a Category 2 hurricane in the Atlantic and is finally moving away from Bermuda. Dangerous surf and rip current conditions are still a factor for parts of the East Coast of the U.S.
Idalia has weakened to a tropical storm as it moved over land. It's still producing heavy rain and life-threatening flash flooding over parts of eastern North Carolina. Into the weekend, Idalia will move into the open Atlantic.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic, the NHC is monitoring two other systems for potential tropical development.
We'll start with Invest 94-L, which has a high chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm over the next 48 hours. The area of low pressure is located west of the Cabo Verde Islands and is starting to become "better organized," the NHC said. Currently, there's a 70 percent chance Invest 94-L will become a tropical depression within 48 hours as it moves west-northwestward across the eastern Atlantic.
The remnants of Gert, a short-lived tropical storm, are currently organized as a "well-defined circulation" a few hundred miles north of the northern Leeward Islands. But there's only a short window for development of this system, the NHC says. That's because environmental conditions will become more unfavorable for development by the weekend. This is why there's only a 30 percent chance it'll become a tropical depression or storm over the next 48 hours.