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A tropical storm might be headed for the East Coast

Dave Mosher
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td9 wind forecast noaa

(A map showing the chances of "tropical depression nine" whipping up tropical storm-force winds over five days.NOAA/National Hurricane Center)

Forecasters expect a tropical cyclone that's brewing in the Gulf of Mexico to soon gain enough strength to be named a tropical storm.

For now, weather experts are calling it "tropical depression nine," or "TD9," which means that it can blow sustained winds up to 38 mph for at least a minute.

TD9 first appeared on August 28 near Havana, Cuba, and has moved west into the gulf's warm waters ever since.

Most computer models predict that TD9 will gain steam before curving northeast and cutting across central to northern Florida.

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Dr. Rick Knabb, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center, gave it up to a 50% chance of becoming a tropical storm before it makes landfall just north of Tampa:

But a number of computer models also predict that the storm will continue north and then stall over the Eastern Seaboard of the US:

Three of the models even predict that the storm will blow out slightly into the Atlantic and then hook back westward to affect the New England area sometime over Labor Day weekend:

Still, as many meteorologists are reminding their followers, it's still early for TD9.

Until a "hurricane hunter" mission returns from its flight to gather fresh data and gauge the depression's strength, all bets are off.

Stay tuned to Business Insider this week as we keep tabs on TD9 and other powerful weather systems.

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