The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a low-pressure system that could form off the U.S. East Coast, bringing high winds, coastal flooding and dangerous surf.

The tropics remain quiet on Saturday, Oct.17 and tropical cyclone formation is not expected over the next seven days for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami,

Hurricane Isaias intensified overnight Thursday with a forecast it will threaten Florida as it targets the Gulf Cosat. The storm just before midnight had become the first Atlantic system this year to

Hurricane Isaias is expected to continue to intensify before making landfall late Friday or early Saturday. See latest update from Hurricane Center.

Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, 5 a.m. ET. System type: Hurricane, Category 2. System name: Isaias. At 5 a.m. Friday, the National Hurricane Center issued its first

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Invest 99L, newly spotted and named Friday morning, now has an 80% chance of developing in the next 48 hours, according to the 2 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the southwestern Gulf, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to strengthen and become a hurricane by Thursday. Isaias has sustained winds of 40 mph and is located just off the eastern coast of Mexico.

For decades, improving the accuracy of track forecasts for dangerous hurricanes like Isaias plodded along at a slow and steady pace. Improvement in intensity forecasting was even slower.

The storm was likely to make landfall Friday night or Saturday morning, forecasters said Hurricane Isaias was on the verge of strengthening to a Category 3 storm Friday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center as of 8 a.

Meteorologist Alexa Trischler says the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is highlighting an area for possible development off the US East Coast this week.