According to the US National Hurricane Center, the ninth Atlantic storm this year has formed east of Caribbean islands’ coasts.

The NHC said Ingrid’s coordinates are latitude 15.1 north, longitude 49.2 or 805 miles (1300 km) west of the Lesser Antilles.

The tropical storm is expected to move for the next 24 hours towards west-north west, with a speed of 7 Mph (11Km/h). Ingrid could also become stronger in the same interval.

Maximum sustained winds reach 40Mph (65Km/h), but around 85Km away from the center of the storm winds reach up to 50Mph.

It’ll take a few days until Ingrid hits the land though.

However, this did not occur in Hurricane Humberto’s case, which last night hit several areas in Louisiana and Texas, after rapidly transforming from a mere tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Humberto, which is the first hurricane to hit the US in two years, ravaged the tiny Texas town of High Island (500 inhabitants) and areas of southwest Louisiana which had not fully recovered from the effects of the Rita hurricane.