The Biggest Hurricane Threat to U.S. Is the System With No Name

  • Forecasters wary of a tropical wave growing in Caribbean
  • Next storm would be named Hermine, could head toward Florida

Hurricane Joaquin 2015.

Source: NOAA
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The Atlantic system that could cause the most storm damage to the U.S. is the one that doesn’t even have a name.

A tropical wave a few hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands has caught meteorologists’ attention not for what it is but what it could become: a tropical storm or hurricane threatening the U.S. East Coast from South Carolina to Florida on Sunday or Monday. If it gets that far, it will be named Hermine.