A disturbance with maximum sustained winds of 60 kilometres per hour is moving north and could become the first tropical storm of the current hurricane season tomorrow, the National Hurricane Centre (CNH) warned today.

Located at a latitude of 21.3 degrees north, longitude 93.0 west, the system could make a gradual turn to the west-northwest and on Wednesday the system is likely to approach the western Gulf of Mexico, the institution said.

During the next 36 hours it will increase in strength and tropical storm winds could extend outward up to 465 kilometres northeast of the centre. The estimated minimum central pressure is 999 mb (29.50 inches), it said in its latest report.

If it becomes a tropical storm, it would carry the name Alberto on the World Meteorological Organisation’s forecast list, the same list used for the 2018 season.

Specialists expect this cyclonic cycle in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, which runs until 30 November, to be very active.