Tropical Storm Jerry is rushing across the central Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Friday. Jerry, which formed Tuesday, is the 10th named storm of a late-blooming season that has produced three hurricanes in just over two weeks.

The hurricane center is tracking a tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean that could become the next named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

The tropical hazard outlook for September, issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center this week, indicates that forecasters expect the warmer waters to increase the chances of tropical activity in the Gulf next week. The second half of hurricane season typically sees more activity in the Caribbean and Gulf than the first half.

Forecasters are tracking future Tropical Storm Jerry and another tropical disturbance in the Atlantic, including one with a slight chance of impacting Florida.

A complex weather dance is underway in the central Atlantic Ocean this week as a pair of developing tropical systems try to get their act together.

The homes, once propped on high stilts, collapsed in Buxton, a community on one of a string of islands that make up the Outer Banks.

Hurricane forecasters highlighted two new disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday morning, including a potential area of low pressure that could bring rain to the Gulf Coast. The low-pressure system could form in the next couple of days near southern Florida, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 7 a.m. Thursday.

High seas and rough surf from two hurricanes have been blamed for the collapse of eight houses on North Carolina's Outer Banks.