As Humberto drifted toward the Bahamas, forecasters were also watching two other areas of disturbed weather.

Forecasters say storm should stay away from Florida

Tropical Storm Humberto is expected to produce wind gusts and rainfall in the Bahamas, but then forecasters anticipate the storm will make a sharp turn to the northeast away from Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center’s Saturday evening advisory.

The center of Humberto was forecast to continue moving away from the northwestern Bahamas overnight and to continue heading far from the east coast of Florida in the coming days.

Humberto’s maximum sustained winds are near

50 mph with higher gusts, the National Weather Service said. The storm is forecast to become a hurricane by Sunday night or early Monday. Tropical storm force winds extend out 140 miles from the north and east of the storm’s center, forecasters said.

The government of the Bahamas has discontinued its Tropical Storm Warning for northwestern Bahamas, and there are no coastal watches and warnings in effect.

Although a tropical storm watch that had been in effect for Florida’s east coast has been dropped, Humberto is still forecast to bring more than an inch of rain to parts of the Florida and Georgia coasts.

“The forecast track has continued to shift east and farther away from South Florida,” said Robert Molleda, a meteorologist with the Miami-South Florida forecast office office of the National Weather Service.

“Tropical storm force winds will remain well offshore,” Molleda said in an email.

Humberto is expected to bring 1 to 3 inches of rain, with the possibility of up to

6 inches in some areas, to the Bahamas.

No watches or warnings had been issued for Palm Beach, Broward or MiamiDade counties or the Florida Keys.

Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean.

One system, about 650 miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Island, is disorganized and has a 10 percent chance of formation over the next 48 hours, forecasters said., and a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next five days.

Another system of showers over eastern and central Gulf of Mexico is expected to slowly develop over the next couple of days. The system is forecast to move inland along the northwestern Gulf coast by late Monday or Tuesday, but further development is not expected, forecasters said.