A tropical system brewing near the Bahamas could bring flooding rain, coastal surge, damaging winds and dangerous surf to the Southeast US as early as Monday, leaving very little time for people to prepare.

At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the disturbance was centered near latitude 20.9 North, longitude 74.6 West. The system is moving toward the northwest near 9 mph (15 km/h). A north-northwestward motion

More tropical trouble is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, with a new storm that could take aim at the US Southeast early next week poised to join Hurricane Humberto by Saturday. But unlike Humberto, this one could go on to make a direct impact and leave little time to prepare.

The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday said Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Atlantic, a tropical depression could form later this week near the Bahamas and Hurricane Gabrielle was headed to the Azores.

Dangerous tropical weather brewed Friday in the Atlantic Ocean with Humberto intensifying into a major Category 3 hurricane and a system forecasters dubbed

The disturbance is bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to the Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos, and could organize near the Bahamas

The National Hurricane Center's 2 a.m. Saturday advisory reported that the potential tropical cyclone is in the Atlantic Ocean, 135 miles northwest of the Eastern Tip of Cuba and 145 miles south of the Central Bahamas. Packing maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, it is tracking northwest at 8 mph.

A tropical wave currently centered near the Dominican Republic is producing widespread but disorganized showers and thunderstorms. As it moves west-northwest at