Imelda tugged east by Humberto's pull

AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva details Imelda's movements.

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00:00Joining us right now is AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex DeSilva.

00:04And Alex, we talked about this on Friday, that there'd be a big tug-of-war going on.

00:10Well, I wouldn't say it's a tug-of-war. I think it's a landslide, and Umberto's going to be winning that.

00:15And part of the reason is because the distance between the two is what about, you were talking about 650 miles or so.

00:23Yeah, it certainly is. And, you know, the big question was going to be whether Imelda could outrun Umberto to the north,

00:28and that would be how we would get a U.S. landfall.

00:31The storm was a little bit slower, and so now we're going to really initiate the Fujiwara effect.

00:36Both players are on the dance floor now, and they're getting ready to do a little dance here starting tonight into tomorrow

00:43with Umberto to the east and Imelda to the west.

00:47They're going to start to rotate around one another, at least Imelda will.

00:51And then as Umberto moves to the north of Imelda, which it's starting to do now,

00:55then Imelda will be pulled underneath and from the southwest.

00:59And so that's why we're going to be seeing this hard right-hand turn coming over the next day or so.

01:04And then both storms will be heading out towards Bermuda.

01:08All right, let's take a look at the rest of Atlantic.

01:10As you know, September is the biggest month of the hurricane season,

01:14but we're going to go through this month without a landfalling storm in the United States.

01:19Yeah, very impressive.

01:21Of course, we will see some impacts from Imelda here, but not a direct landfall here.

01:27But, you know, looking across the basin, it does look pretty quiet other than our two systems off the southeast coast.

01:32But there are going to be a few things that we'll have to watch.

01:35But right now, look at the basin.

01:36It's full of sheer.

01:38You can see all this dark purple.

01:39So nothing immediate going to be developing here over the next couple of days.

01:44But we are watching two areas, one way in the west, Bay of Campeche area.

01:49The good news for the United States is that if this develops, it's moving south.

01:53So it will be heading towards Mexico, not towards the United States.

01:56And then the other area, way out in the Atlantic, it's still that time of the year where we still have to watch the tropical waves.

02:02Usually we have to wait until about mid-October or so, maybe a little bit later for that to really slow down.

02:07So we're still looking out towards Africa, and we have one at the beginning of October that we're going to have to watch.

02:13But it has to battle a lot of wind shear, I think, as it's going to be coming west.

02:17AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex DaSilva, thanks for joining us again here on AccuWeather Early.