TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After Tampa Bay experienced back-to-back devastating storms this year, there is still a month left of hurricane season.

But do hurricanes even form in November?

Well, Florida has seen 14 in the month of November since storms began being recorded in 1861. These hurricanes have each been within 300 miles of Tampa Bay.

Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Amanda Holly said that most of the storms were weak — being only tropical storms.

However, three of those hurricanes — Yankee (1935), Kate (1985), and Nicole (2022) did make landfall in the Sunshine State. Hurricanes Yankee and Nicole made landfall as a Category 1, while Kate made landfall as a 2.

Currently sitting in the southwestern Caribbean Sea is a tropical disturbance with a 50% chance for development over the next seven days. There are two other disturbances being monitored by the National Hurricane Center.

The National Hurricane Center expects the system to become a tropical depression sometime this weekend or into early next week as it travels northward or northwestward. The waters are cooling down a bit in the Gulf, so even if the system strengthens into a hurricane, it won’t be a major one.

Amanda Holly said that due to the steering currents, the storm may get stuck in the Gulf of Mexico. But a lot of question marks remain regarding this system, as it is too far out to tell where exactly it will go.