Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The National Hurricane Center named two tropical storms located east of the Bahamas and Mexico on Saturday as the deadly 2024 Atlantic storm season continued to churn across the region.
Tropical Storm Oscar had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving westerly at 13 mph while positioned less than 100 miles east of the Turks and Caicos Islands, the National Hurricane Center reported at 11 a.m. EDT.
The storm could impact the Turks and Caicos, the southeastern Bahamas and eastern Cuba.
The NHC says the storm system has a 90% chance of strengthening over the next seven days.
The NHC also is tracking Tropical Storm Nadine, which is located east of southern Mexico, northern Guatemala and northern Belize.
Nadine had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and was moving westerly at 8 mph at 11 a.m. EDT, the NHC reported.
Nadine could cause localized areas of flash flooding and triggered storm warnings along portions of the coasts of Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
The NHC says Nadine has a 90% chance of strengthening.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted between 17 and 24 named storms for the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season, including four classified as major hurricanes of at least Category 3, which has sustained winds of between 111 and 130 mph.
So far, 13 named storms have formed with nine developing into hurricanes and four into major hurricanes.
The four major hurricanes include Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, and Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida on Oct. 9.
Both storms caused widespread destruction and death with Helene ravaging much of the southeastern United States and Milton crossing Florida from west to east.