For the latest information on Hurricane Gabrielle, visit the National Hurricane Center's website. 

Hurricane Gabrielle, the seventh named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened to a Category 4 storm on Monday, but the system is not expected to impact South Florida, meteorologists say.

Gabrielle's current status

As of Tuesday morning, research flights found wind speeds of 140 mph as it continues to travel north at 13 mph.

Gabrielle will continue to move away from Bermuda on Tuesday. It is expected to move faster northeastward to east-northeastward through Thursday into the open central northern Atlantic through Thursday.

Gabrielle continues to generate swells that will affect Bermuda, the U.S. East coast from North Carolina northward, and Atlantic Canada over the next few days. These swells will lead to life-threatening surf and dangerous rip currents.

Elsewhere in the Tropics, the CBS Miami Next Weather team is tracking two tropical waves.

A tropical wave east of the Leeward Islands is producing a large area of disorganized showers and storms, and gusty winds across much of the Windward and Leeward Islands.  This wave is forecast to move west, northwestward at 15 to 20 mph. 

Heavy rain and gusty winds will be possible for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Tuesday night and Wednesday.  This system is expected to slow down and turn northwestward when it reaches the southwestern Atlantic near the Bahamas late week.

The National Hurricane Center said this wave has a medium potential for development over the next seven days.

The second tropical wave is located a little less than 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and continues to show signs of organization. Environmental conditions are forecast to become favorable for development over the next several days, and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week as this system moves west, northwestward.

2025 Atlantic hurricane season

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, forecast an above-normal hurricane season this year, predicting there will be between 13 and 18 named storms. Five to nine of those are expected to become hurricanes. 

Erin was the first, and so far only, storm to become a hurricane this season. Erin didn't make landfall, but at its peak grew to a ferocious Category 5, and it caused strong winds, dangerous rip currents and flooding along parts of the East Coast.  

Historically, on average, hurricane and tropical storm activity peaks on Sept. 10, but this year has been quieter than expected when it comes to tropical systems in the Atlantic.