iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Gaston has reformed in the Atlantic Ocean and although it’s not expected to reach land, experts say it could grow stronger in the next few days.
“We’re not forecasting it to become a major hurricane, but it could near major hurricane status during the next 48 hours,” forecaster Todd Kimberlain of the National Hurricane Center (NHC) told ABC News.
The category 1 storm’s highest sustained winds are 85 miles per hour while moving slowly northwest at 8 miles per hour, according to NHC.
Separately, another storm system is headed to Florida and could be this season’s next named storm. The low pressure wave, with some tropical storm force winds, is moving west after lingering over the Caribbean for a few days, the NHC said.
“The computer models are saying some kind of low pressure area is likely to form in the eastern Gulf of Mexico earlier this week and it is possible that it could become a tropical cyclone at that point,” Kimberlain said to ABC News.
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