The National Hurricane Center has announced that, according to their three-day forecast, Tropical Storm Kyle is becoming stronger and might turn into a hurricane over the open Atlantic west of Bermuda before striking Nova Scotia the following days.

On an advisory posted on their website, the Center informed that Kyle's maximum sustained winds have recently reached 60 miles an hour, an increase by 10 miles an hour from yesterday’s velocity.

Carrie McCabe, a meteorologist for private forecaster AccuWeather Incorporated in State College, Pennsylvania, stated that Kyle was likely to become a category one hurricane, remaining so only for a maximum period of 24 hours before weakening into a storm again.

When forecasters triggered the tropical storm watch, Kyle was centered 500 miles south-southwest of Bermuda and was moving north at 13 mph. Given that the intensity of the storm could increase, the NHC posted a tropical-storm warning for Bermuda, which means that winds of at least 39 miles per hour are likely within the following 24 hours.

Tropical Storm Kyle is the eleventh named tropical depreesion of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, which is expected to end on November 30. It formed this week from a strong tropical disturbance across the northeastern Caribbean Sea, from where it moved forward to the surroundings of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. After this, on September 24, it began to head northward and a day later, it was declared a tropical storm.

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season officially started on June 1 and delimits the period of the year when most cyclones form in the ocean’s basin. Nevertheless, on May 30, Tropical Storm Arthur formed off the coast of Belize, thus kicking off the season 2 days earlier than expected.

In August, Colorado State University forecasters informed that the season would include 17 storms, 9 hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes.

Up to now, 5 tropical storms have formed in the Atlantic: Arthur (on May 30, dissipating three days later, after having caused approximately $78 million worth of damage and killed 9 people), Cristobal ( on July 15), Edouard (on August 3), Fay (on August 15) and Josephine (on September 2).

Moreover, five hurricanes have formed so far in the ocean. On July 1, a tropical wave emerged off the coast of Africa and within a week, it became a hurricane.

Hurricane Bertha-the name it was given- is the longest-lived pre-August Atlantic tropical cyclone on record.

On July 23, category two hurricane Dolly hit Texas, causing $1.2 billion dollars in damage.

In August, hurricane Gustav, category four, killed 85 people in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. It was followed by Hanna, a hurricane that made more than 500 victims in Haiti.

The latest one, hurricane Ike, has been the third most destructive U.S. hurricane on record, with a death toll of at least 145 people and estimated $27 billion damage.