Crowded Atlantic Ocean May Get Five Named Storms for the First Time
- Gulf of Mexico system has 50% chance to become tropical storm
- The next storm will be named Kirk, followed by Leslie
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For tropical storms, two’s company, three’s a crowd and five is, well, unprecedented.
Maybe not for long. Weather forecasters are watching a disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico that has a 50 percent chance of becoming Tropical Storm Kirk in the next two days, according to the National Hurricane Center. That would make five named storms traversing the Atlantic simultaneously, for the first time on record.