Hurricane Humberto has strengthened to a Category 4 storm but will stay out to sea and miss North Carolina. Now all eyes are focused on the yet-unnamed Tropical Cyclone 9 and its uncertain path early next week.
Humberto moved northeast of the Leeward Islands on Saturday but remained “too far east” for any coastal impact, said Dan Leins, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Raleigh.
But forecasters are keeping a close eye on the tropical cyclone off Cuba, likely to build to tropical storm strength and take the name Imelda. That “disturbance” was gathering strength and moving northwest, but early predictions have the center of the storm failing short of the North Carolina coast…