New Tropical Storm Drifts Through the Atlantic

Havana, Sep 9 (Prensa Latina) Tropical Storm Humberto, the eighth of the current hurricane season, was formed in the far Atlantic early this morning, said the Cuban Institute of Meteorology (Insmet).

At 06:00 local time, the system's central area was located 13.4 degrees latitude North and 23.0 degrees longitude West, around 365 km south of Cape Verde Islands.

Humberto's maximum sustained winds are 65 kph, its central pressure has decreased to five thousand and five hectopascal, and it is moving westward 19 kmh.

Insmet forecasts that over the next 24 to 48 hours the tropical storm will make a turn towards the west-northwest, decreasing in speed and gaining organization and intensity to become a hurricane on Wednesday.

Experts forecast from 13 to 20 named tropical systems in the regions of the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico this year. Seven to eleven of them will become hurricanes, including several major ones.