Tropical Storm Imelda is strengthening north of the Bahamas and beginning its hard right turn eastward, sparing the US coast from a direct strike. But the storm is still churning up dangerous surf, rip currents,

Surf. Swells generated by Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto are affecting the Bahamas and are currently spreading to much of the U.S. east coast. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

The system’s slow development, and slow forward movement, will likely prove beneficial for the southeastern U.S. coast. Hurricane Humberto will cause a weakness in that ridge of high pressure over the Atlantic, providing Imelda an off-ramp of sorts to make a hard turn toward the east.

Tropical Storm Imelda formed over the Bahamas Sunday afternoon and is expected to intensify into a hurricane, and while its forecast is less ominous for the Southeast coast, the storm will still be felt there.

Tropical Storm Imelda formed Sunday afternoon just east of the southern tip of Andros Island in the northwestern Bahamas and continues to strengthen near Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas – about 200 miles east of southeast Florida – on Monday.

Tropical Storm Imelda is strengthening as it moves slowly north along Florida's coast Monday, Sept. 29. The storm is expected to become a hurricane Tuesday morning, Sept. 30, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Chief Meteorologist Devon Lucie shows you where Imelda is most likely to track and how strong it could get, then gets you into Humberto with its most likely track and how much stronger or weather that storm will get and how the two storms could interact with each other.