Hurricane center continues tracking 2 systems with chance to develop

Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel on Oct 18, 2025

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to track a pair of systems with a low chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the biggest threat to land was a tropical wave about 800 miles east of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands with a large area of showers and thunderstorms.

“Gradual development of this system is possible during the next several days while it moves generally westward at around 20 mph,” forecasters said. “Regardless of development, this system is expected to bring heavy rainfall and gusty winds to the Windward Islands Sunday and Sunday night, then move across the Caribbean Sea through much of next week.”

The NHC gave it a near 0% chance to develop in the next two days and 30% chance to develop in the next seven.

The second system was a nontropical area of low pressure located several hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda.

“There is a slight chance that the system could develop some subtropical characteristics through tonight before it turns northeastward over cooler waters on Sunday,” forecasters said,

The NHC gave it a 10% chance to develop in the next two to seven days.

If either were to develop into a named storm, they could become Tropical or Subtropical Storm Melissa.

Of the 12 named storms this year, four have grown into hurricanes, and three of those became major hurricanes. Only one, Tropical Storm Chantal, made a U.S. landfall this year.

Hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.