Wednesday noon tropical update: Tropical Depression Twenty forms

There are no tropical threats to the Gulf of Mexico and just one named storm in the Atlantic as of Wednesday morning.
Hurricane Sam continues to churn over the open Atlantic as a major hurricane. It is forecast to remain a major hurricane through Saturday. It will curve north around a ridge of high pressure and stay well east-northeast of the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea. It will likely pass east of Bermuda this weekend.
A strong tropical wave over the eastern Atlantic continues to organize as it moves to the west-northwest. As of Wednesday morning, it has become tropical depression twenty and it's projected to become a tropical storm this afternoon. Victor is next on the list.

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