Post-Tropical Cyclone Odette moves away from the US

Peter likely to form while Nicholas fizzles

Odette, which formed Friday evening off the mid-Atlantic coast, is forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rains to portions of Newfoundland on Sunday as a post-tropical cyclone, the National Hurricane Center said.

As of 5 p.m., Odette was located 295 miles east-southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and 625 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Odette is moving east-northeast at 18 mph with 45 mph sustained winds.

“On the forecast track, the center of Odette will pass south of Atlantic Canada on Sunday and Monday,” forecasters said.

Odette’s not the only disturbance the NHC is tracking.

First, the NHC is watching disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located about 600 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Meteorologists give the system a 90% chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next two to five days. The system is expected to march west across the tropical Atlantic.

Finally, a tropical wave a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands has a 70% chance of forming into a storm in the next two to five days, the NHC said.

If these systems form into tropical storms, they would be named Tropical Storms Peter and Rose. The 2021 season has already seen 14 named systems, including five hurricanes, three of which have been major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher.

Although the NHC stopped tracking Nicholas, the post-tropical cyclone continued to exacerbate already-weathered Louisiana, which is still recovering from Hurricane Ida passing over.

Nicholas dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on parts of Texas — and the weather service was checking reports of nearly 14 inches of rain in Galveston — after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.

Houston reported more than 6 inches. Parts of Louisiana received more than 10 inches of rain from the storm.

In Louisiana, the rain is forecast to linger for days.