At least two more named storms possible as Nicholas dissipates.

This week marks the climatological, or historical, peak of hurricane season, and, right on schedule, the Atlantic is roaring to life with another round of tropical trouble. At least two additional named storms are possible by early next week, including one that could slip between the Eastern Seaboard and Bermuda and another poised to track through the Atlantic’s “Hurricane Alley.”

It comes just days after Nicholas made landfall southwest of Galveston as a Category 1 hurricane, bringing winds gusting to 95 mph and up to 14 inches of rainfall, spurring pockets of flash flooding and a damaging coastal storm surge. Flash flood watches remain in effect from Acadiana and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana through coastal Mississippi and Alabama and as far east as the Florida Panhandle.

Nicholas marked the 19th named storm to make landfall in the Lower 48 in the past 17 months, representing a period of hyperactive tropical activity that appears virtually unmatched in the historical record.

Nicholas is mostly gone, but its lingering remnants are still juicing up the atmosphere to invigorate daily thunderstorms rumbling along the Gulf Coast. On Wednesday, the heaviest rainfall targeted areas along Interstate 10 from Biloxi, Miss., to near Panama City, Fla., including the greater Mobile area. Roughly 4.45 inches fell in Pensacola with more than a foot in northwest Escambia County, while a 7.48 inch total was reported at the immediate coastline.

For days, a lobe of spin has been whirling around north of the Bahamas. Visible satellite imagery shows a healthy arc of convection, or shower and thunderstorm activity, tracing around the center of nascent low pressure

Dry air on the western side was preventing any flare-ups of thunderstorms closer to the Carolina coastline,.

It’s likely that the system will develop into a tropical depression or, perhaps, tropical storm by Saturday. The National Hurricane Center estimates a 70 percent chance of development. The name “Odette” is next on the list.

The system looks to remain fully offshore. The only direct impacts to U.S. soil will be high surf and rip currents. The National Weather Service in Morehead City, N.C., issued a high rip current risk for parts of the Carolina coastline, cautioning of “lifethreatening rip currents” on Thursday.

The system will probably intensify before ejecting into the north central Atlantic and transitioning into a powerful extratropical cyclone early next week.

A suspicious area of disturbed weather called Invest 95L ejected offshore of Senegal in western Africa earlier this week. Invest 95L is located about 800 miles westsouthwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, and is drifting nearly due west.

Shower and thunderstorm activity has struggled to materialize and remain sustained. It will likely become a tropical depression or storm by Monday.

There are signs it will gradually develop, and could approach or skirt the northern Leeward Islands by Tuesday.