Two storms in the Atlantic, one brewing in Gulf as Hurricane Season 2021 hits 'peak' date of Sept.10

Today, Sept. 10, is the "peak" of the hurricane season. So far this season there have been 13 named storms. The last two are Hurricane Larry and Tropical Storm Mindy.

Larry has been blowin' and goin' since it earned its name as a tropical storm on Sept. 2 way down south between Africa and South America. Since then it strengthened up to a major Category 3 storm on Sept. 3, weakening to a Category 2 and then Category 1 hurricane as it approached, but missed, Bermuda, and then made a beeline for St. John's Island, Canada, where it is expected to make its first landfall of its long life around 10 p.m. to midnight tonight, still as a Cat 1 storm. Larry will continue going north towards Greenland until cooler waters take their toll.

Mindy, on the other hand, popped up outside the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon, quickly hit land within five hours, lost tropical storm status in South Georgia and is now a low pressure system heading east into the Atlantic where Larry just passed. By 1 p.m. Saturday Mindy will be packing sustained winds of 29 mph with gusts of 40 mph.

At this time there is a low pressure system that may develop in the Bay of Campeche -- that "pocket" between the Yucatan Peninsua and southern Mexico's Gulf Coast, centered around Veracruz.

If that system develops into a tropical storm by early next week, it would become the 14th of the season and earn the name of Tropical Storm Nicholas. Most recent forecasts indicate a "high risk" of development over the weekend, but thoughts are that it will pull a Mindy and hit land soon after earning its name, making in unlikely there will be Hurricane Nicholas this year. Weathermen said that even if Nicholas doesn't stay over water long enough to gain wind power, it is expected to dump a lot of water on Mexico and south Texas during its anticipated short life.

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