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Miami (USA).- The storm Humberto, the eighth cyclone of the current Atlantic season, formed this Wednesday about 1,100 kilometers east of Puerto Rico, and is expected to become a hurricane from Saturday, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English) of the United States.
The storm, which arises at the same time as Hurricane Gabrielle approaches the Azores, is currently moving northwest at about 24 kilometers per hour.
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Humberto presents maximum sustained winds of up to 65 kilometers per hour with stronger gusts, and the center warned that "a constant strengthening is forecast over the coming days".
The bulletin added that there are no coastal warnings in effect, although the effects of its winds extend up to 75 kilometers from its center.
If the trajectory currently predicted by meteorologists is followed, the storm would approach Bermuda or pass between these islands and the Greater Antilles.
NHC meteorologists indicated this September that 60% of the cyclonic activity could still be missing after a "relatively calm" start to the Atlantic season, which runs from June 1 to November 30 and had its "climatological peak" on September 10.
So far, there have been eight cyclones this year in the Atlantic: Hurricane Erin, and the storms Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Fernand, Gabrielle, and Humberto.
Chantal, who was the only one to make landfall this year in the United States, caused two deaths in July in North Carolina.
Gabrielle is currently 1,630 kilometers west of the Azores, where the NHC expects it to pass between Thursday and Friday, so it issued a hurricane alert for this Portuguese archipelago.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an "above-normal" hurricane season, estimating between 13 and 18 tropical storms, of which between five and nine could become hurricanes.
