Marco became a tropical storm on the heels of Laura, which set a record for the earliest 12th named storm of a season when it formed on Friday morning northeast of the Lesser Antilles.
Because the hurricane center slowed Laura's entrance into the Gulf and moved its track westward, the two storms are now forecast to be together in the Gulf on Tuesday, just before the weaker western storm smacks Texas with Laura making landfall a bit less than a day later.
The hurricane center on Friday issued tropical storm warnings for the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico. Laura was forecast to smack Puerto Rico on Saturday morning, go over or near the Dominican Republic and Haiti late Saturday and Cuba on Sunday. Laura, which set a record for the earliest 12th named storm of a season, was moving through the northern Leeward Islands on Friday evening, about 250 miles (415 kilometers) east-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was heading west at 17 mph (28 kph).
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Marco has emerged about 180 miles (290 kilometers) southeast of Cozumel, Mexico. The storm's maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph) and it was expected to move near the Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday. The storm is headed north-northwest at 13 mph (20 kph).
If the two storms make it, they could be crowded in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time Tuesday about 550 miles apart. That would leave open some weird possibilities, including the storms rotating around each other in a tropical two-step, pulling in closer to each other, nudging each other, weakening each other or - far less likely - merging.
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The last time two storms made landfall in the United States within 24 hours of each other was in 1933, Klotzbach said. It seems fitting for 2020 to have this type of twin threats, said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.
"Of course, we have to have two simultaneously land-falling hurricanes," McNoldy said. "It's best not to ask what's next."
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