Hurricane Jerry continued to weaken Friday, located about 130 miles northeast of Barbuda, but it is expected to remain a hurricane for a few days, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Meanwhile, the remnants of former Tropical Depression Imelda drenched parts of Texas with more than 40 inches of rain and, according to authorities, caused at least two deaths.
Additionally, a series of tropical systems of varying size and intensity are scattered throughout the Atlantic tropical region. None of them are currently a threat to Florida or the U.S.
Here’s the latest on what’s happening in the tropics:
Hurricane Jerry
Jerry’s maximum sustained winds have dropped to 85 mph making it a Category 1 storm as it moves northwest at a speedy clip of 17 mph. Jerry is expected to dodge the Caribbean islands before hooking north into the open Atlantic Ocean.
Forecasters Friday said Jerry is expected to pass well north of Puerto Rico on Saturday and will be well east-northeast of the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday.
However, it’s five-day track takes it over Bermuda, which dealt with effects from Hurricane Humberto this week.
Imelda and Humberto
Meanwhile, the slow-churning remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda that flooded parts of Texas left at least two people dead and rescue crews with boats scrambling to reach stranded drivers and families trapped in their homes during a relentless downpour that drew comparisons to Hurricane Harvey two years ago.
A 19-year-old man drowned and was electrocuted while trying to move his horse to safety, according to a message from his family shared by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. And a man in his 40s or 50s drowned when he tried to drive a van through 8-foot-deep floodwaters near Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston during the Thursday afternoon rush hour, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
Even as the intensity of the storm weakened, Harris County officials warned that some of their 4.7 million residents might not see high waters recede in their neighborhoods until the weekend.
The storm system that was Humberto has been re-categorized as a Post-Tropical Cyclone and is no longer being classified as an active storm by the hurricane center as the weather system continues to move away from Bermuda. No deaths were reported in Humberto’s wake in Bermuda but much of the island was without power after the storm made a close pass Wednesday night.
The hurricane center is no longer issuing advisories on Humberto or Imelda.
Other tropical systems
South of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea, a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms is being called Disturbance 2. This disturbance is expected to move northwest and bring heavy rain to some of the Caribbean islands like the Dominican Republic and Haiti over the next few days. It has been given a 10 percent chance of forming over the next five days.
Farther east in the Atlantic, Disturbance 1 is a tropical wave almost 700 miles west of the Windward Islands that will possibly develop as it approaches the string of islands on the eastern perimeter of the Caribbean. It’s been given a 10% chance of development over the next two days and a 30% chance during the next 5 days.
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Additionally, the hurricane center says yet another tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa “this weekend” and gradually develop as it starts to move toward the west. Its chances of development grew to 70% over the next five days.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.