Some uncertainty surrounds the tracks of both storms. However, Humberto is likely to recurve out to sea, avoiding landfall. But forecasters believe the other system to the west, Invest 94L, the future Imelda, could strike the East Coast near the Carolinas.

By Friday afternoon, Humberto had become a major Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 115 m.p.h. In cases when a storm forms near shore and then rapidly intensifies, as Otis did near Acapulco, officials and residents can have little time to prepare.

Humberto is about 465 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and is moving slowly toward the northwest. It is expected to strengthen substantially over the weekend to become a major hurricane, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

A new weather buzzword is storming social media as Hurricane Humberto may do a giant dance with another tropical cyclone in the Atlantic.

At 5 p.m. Friday, the National Hurricane Center issued an advisory stating that Category 3 Hurricane Humberto is in the Atlantic Ocean, 430 miles northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands. The hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, is moving west-northwest at 5 mph.

Humberto is expected to bypass the Greater Antilles before turning into the Atlantic. But interaction with another tropical system could change that.

Hurricane Humberto became the third hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean for the 2025 season Friday morning, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It could soon be joined by Tropical Storm Imelda in the southwestern Atlantic, which was a tropical wave Friday morning.

Humberto does not currently pose a direct threat to New England, with the storm being too far out for the National Hurricane Center to be predicting New England impacts. Additionally, no spaghetti models predict as of Friday morning that it will impact the region.