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A potential ninth named storm is developing off Mexico’s coast in the Bay of Campeche, with forecast models suggesting it could impact parts of the Gulf Coast by this weekend. The system, currently Tropical Depression Nine, may bring moderate to heavy rainfall across the Gulf Coast and into the Southeast over the next few days. While some models predict the depression will strengthen to a tropical storm—receiving the name Isaias—the timing, intensity, and specific impacts remain uncertain.
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Tropical Depression Nine formed in the Gulf off Mexico's coast on Tuesday. As of now, forecast models predict its northward movement towards the Gulf Coast by this weekend, despite uncertainty about storm intensity and exact timing. Regardless of whether it develops further into a tropical storm or remains as is, the system will bring moderate to heavy rainfall to the Gulf Coast and the Southeast through early next week. Some long-range models suggest that moisture from the system could reach the Ohio Valley and Northeast by mid-next-week. The current Atlantic hurricane season, which runs until November 30, has seen eight named storms so far this year.
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With less than two months remaining in the hurricane season, the potential for a ninth named tropical storm in the Atlantic basin is brewing in the southern Gulf.
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Since the Atlantic's season began on June 1, it has only seen eight named storms this year, while
continues to bring a more active season in the Pacific.
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The season ends Nov. 30.What
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we know
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Tropical Depression Nine formed in the Gulf on Tuesday, and a lot remains unknown as it brews over the warmer waters off Mexico in the Bay of Campeche.
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Forecast models are beginning to come to agreement that the northward motion of this tropical system brings it to the Gulf Coast this weekend.
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Regardless of its name or if it develops into a tropical storm, we do know that it will bring moderate to heavy rainfall to the Gulf Coast and into the rest of the Southeast this weekend into early next week.
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Some longer-range forecast models also see this moisture eventually reaching the Ohio Valley and Northeast by midweek next week.
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What we do not know
Timing, storm intensity and severity of impacts to land with this tropical system are what remain unknown.
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While some models have impacts starting Friday evening, others show it beginning later in the weekend.
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There is also some uncertainty regarding the system's storm intensity forecast, with some models keeping it as a tropical depression and others having it reach tropical storm strength.
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If it does become a tropical storm, it would receive the name Isaias, pronounced "ees-ah-EE-ahs.
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Beware the "I"-named storm
While tropical storm and hurricane formation and frequency vary throughout the season, the "I"-named systems tend to be the most retired names within the Atlantic basin.
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The most commonly known retired "I"-named storms are Ian (2022), Ida (2021), Irma (2017), and Irene (2011).
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When Ike was retired in 2008, Isaias replaced the "I" name on the Atlantic tropical cyclones list, which rotates every six years.
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