Humberto strengthens into major hurricane in the Atlantic. Maps show its forecast path.

Humberto grew right into a Category 4 hurricane on Friday night, “quickly strengthening” into a serious hurricane, however there have been no speedy watches or warnings issued for the U.S. by the Nationwide Hurricane Middle. 

The storm is one of two systems swirling over the western Atlantic that might probably carry some downstream impacts to elements of the Southeast U.S. coast, from Florida to North Carolina, the director of the Miami-based hurricane middle, Michael Brennan, stated.

There have been no coastal watches or warnings in impact as a result of both storm as of Friday afternoon. 

Hurricane Humberto forecast and path

As of Friday evening, Humberto was situated about 390 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. It was shifting west at about 7 mph with most sustained winds of 145 mph. A storm is deemed a “main” hurricane if it is a Class 3, 4 or 5 as a result of potential for “important lack of life and injury,” the NHC says.

“Speedy strengthening ought to proceed over the central Atlantic,” the hurricane middle stated Friday evening.

Tropical-storm-force winds prolong outward as much as 105 miles from the middle of Humberto, and hurricane-force winds prolong outward as much as 25 miles, the hurricane middle stated.

It’s the eighth named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. It comes on the heels of Hurricane Gabrielle, which isn’t impacting land because it heads farther out into the Atlantic.

One other storm system brews over the Caribbean

The hurricane middle can be intently monitoring a second storm system over the northeast Caribbean within the Atlantic, close to Humberto. 

The system is prone to grow to be a tropical melancholy on Saturday, a tropical storm by Sunday and a hurricane by late Monday, forecasters stated. 

The system is anticipated to carry “important rainfall” to parts of Cuba and the Bahamas. Cuba may see as much as 16 inches of rain, whereas the Bahamas may obtain as much as 8 inches, the hurricane middle stated. 

The system is anticipated “to maneuver throughout the central and northwestern Bahamas this weekend and strategy the southeast U.S. coast early subsequent week,” the hurricane middle stated Friday. 

There may be additionally a risk it could interact with Humberto — a phenomenon generally known as the Fujiwhara effect, by which two completely different storms converge and both be part of or spin round one another. However CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan stated such an final result shouldn’t be thought-about seemingly on this case.