Hurricane Kirk could develop into a major hurricane

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season remains active as the calendar turns to October, traditionally Florida's busiest month for hurricanes.

Although the only named storm out there is the distant (and strengthening) Hurricane Kirk, the National Hurricane Center is also monitoring two other tropical disturbances, including one in the Caribbean Sea.

And it's this developing system that has people in the U.S. most concerned, as forecasters say it could become a named storm in the Gulf of Mexico by next week.

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The storm activity follows deadly and devastating Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Florida last week and brought heavy, flooding rains across the Appalachian Mountains. More than a million people were still without power as of Tuesday afternoon.