Fernand is not expected to pose a threat to Florida or the U.S. as it moves north in the central Atlantic before dissipating later this week.

Just days after Hurricane Erin roared into the history books as a Category 5, another named system has spun up in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Fernand, the sixth named storm of 2025, formed Saturday afternoon about 405 miles south-southeast of Bermuda,

The National Hurricane Center is tracking five tropical disturbances in the Atlantic, according to the 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22, advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Invest 90L near the Leeward Islands is "very likely" to become a tropical depression or tropical storm over the weekend. If so, it would become Fernand.