Meteorologists now tracking two MORE tropical storms over the Atlantic as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida

Meteorologists are presently tracking 2 much storms brewing implicit the Atlantic Ocean arsenic Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida.

Hurricane Leslie was upgraded to a Category 1 Wednesday evening aft gaining spot successful the east-northeast portion of the Caribbean.

Meanwhile, a non-tropical country of debased pressure system could soon beryllium named Nadine if it produces capable upwind speeds.

The 2 travel arsenic Hurricane Milton is hours distant from landfall successful Florida and a week aft Helene near a way of devastation successful North Carolina.

Neither tempest is expected to deed the US mainland.

Nadine would people the 14th named tempest of the 2024 hurricane season. 

NHC is intimately monitoring imaginable tropical tempest Invest 93L, which has brought rainfall and winds arsenic Milton barrels into the area, and Hurricane Leslie which is moving up toward Europe.

'Of those three, Milton is by acold the astir unsafe and volition beryllium the astir dangerous,' said Tom Kines, Accuweather elder meteorologist told DailyMail.com.

Invest 93L is simply a non-tropical country of debased unit located astir 650 miles disconnected the eastbound Florida seashore with a way northeastward to east-northeastward.

The FOX Forecast Center said the showers disconnected the seashore of Florida being produced by Invest 93L is an country to watch.

'As it moves disconnected to the northbound and northeast, it is not apt to summation spot but we are watching its adjacent proximity to the southeast coast,' the meteorologists explained.

Kines said that the system's upwind and unit would request to alteration dramatically to interaction states on the East Coast, but the displacement would not beryllium impossible.

'I don't privation to accidental it's a zero percent chance,' Kines said.

'But because, you know, Mother Nature, she's got ways to propulsion america curve balls. It's unpredictable, but I conscionable don't see.' 

The imaginable tropical tempest is labeled 'invest' beryllium origin it a upwind strategy that is being monitored by a tropical cyclone forecast halfway for imaginable tropical cyclone development.

And the 'L' indicates it is simply a debased unit system.

But Invest 93L could make into Tropical Storm Nadine contiguous and is lone traveling 15 miles per hr arsenic it moves distant from Florida.

Leslie is presently 1,015 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained upwind of 85 miles per hr arsenic it moves 10 miles per hr to the northwest.

'Some further strengthening is apt contiguous and tonight, followed by weakening done aboriginal adjacent week,' NHC shared successful a statement.

While Kines noted that 'Nadine' and  Leslie are non-factors, Milton is connected a way to deed Florida.

The tempest is packing winds up to 155 miles per hour and is presently centered 250 miles southwest of Tampa, moving northeast astatine 16 mph. 

Experts person predicted that Milton could inundate Florida with 15 feet of tempest surge, 155 mile-per-hour winds and up to 18 inches of rain. 

'Milton has the imaginable to beryllium 1 of the astir destructive hurricanes connected grounds for west-central Florida,' the NHC said connected Wednesday. 

The impending tempest has triggered the largest evacuation effort since Hurricane Irma battered the authorities successful 2017, with 5.5 cardinal radical urged to permission Florida's westbound seashore arsenic soon arsenic possible. 

Hurricane Milton comes arsenic Floridians are inactive recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall successful on Florida's Gulf Coast earlier moving north, causing wide harm crossed the southeastern US.

Helene killed at slightest 225 people, 19 of whom were successful Florida. Hundreds of victims are inactive missing. 

'Unfortunately, immoderate of the Helene victims are successful the way of this storm,' Governor Ron DeSantis said during a Monday property conference. 

'A batch of these homeowners are successful betterment mode,' Florida State Climatologist David Zierden antecedently told DailyMail.com.

'They astir apt didn't person the clip oregon the resources to hole for this 1 arsenic overmuch arsenic they usually would,' helium added.

This could compound the harm of this oncoming storm, particularly arsenic debris from Helene gets swept up successful the tempest surge from Milton, Zierden said. 

Over 12,000 cubic yards of debris person been removed successful Helene-affected areas of Florida successful little than 2 days, officials person said.