A significant late-season tropical system is poised to come together later this week and could strengthen into a formidable November hurricane by this weekend or early next week as it meanders in the western Caribbean.
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Interests from Jamaica and Haiti in the east to Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, and the Yucatan Peninsula in the west will need to monitor the growing threat, especially by late week into the weekend.
Unfortunately, competing steering currents may leave a powerful hurricane adrift into the first part of next week, when it could bend northward toward the Gulf of Mexico or Florida.
While it's too early to know what path the future storm may take, with credible scenarios paving a path into the Gulf and unusually conducive conditions ahead for November, Floridians will want to pay extra attention to the forecasts in the days ahead.
