Tropical depression forms in Caribbean; likely to impact Gulf Coast this weekend as Hurricane Nate

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Source: USA Today

Tropical depression forms in Caribbean; likely to impact Gulf Coast this weekend as Hurricane Nate

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 10:54 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2017 | Updated 4:23 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2017

The ferocious 2017 hurricane season shows no signs of letting up.

A newly formed tropical depression now spinning in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to move north into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthen into a hurricane by the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

As of 2 p.m. ET, the center of Tropical Depression 16 was located about 195 miles south-southeast of the Nicaragua/Honduras border. It had winds of 35 mph and was moving to the northwest at 7 mph.

A depression becomes a named storm when its winds reach 39 mph. The system will be called Nate.

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1. Here we go again...

I can't wait to hear Trump congratulate himself again.