The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a system with a 70 percent chance to develop into a tropical depression in the next five days. That system is located just off the west coast of Africa.
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That system is moving at about 15 miles per hour. It moves over warmer water that could help the system strengthen next week.
The next system to become a named storm will take on the name Paulette.
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At 1 a.m. Thursday, Hurricane Nana made landfall on the coast of Belize with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.
Nana has since weakened to a tropical storm, but it continues to drop heavy rain in Belize, Mexico and Guatemala.
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Meanwhile, Omar--the tropical storm that formed off the coast of North Carolina--continues to weaken as it heads east in the Atlantic Ocean.
Omar is now a tropical depression. It could remain at that strength into the weekend, but the system is not near any landmass.
There is a fourth tropical wave that the National Hurricane Center is monitoring in the Atlantic storm basin, but it currently only has a 30 percent chance to develop into a tropical depression in the next five days.
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