Hurricane Gabrielle on Monday grew stronger since becoming the season’s second hurricane while the National Hurricane Center also tracked two more systems that could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

Gabrielle is expected to move well clear of Bermuda in the open Atlantic, but where the new systems could threaten remains in question.

As of the NHC’s 2 a.m. tropical outlook, the more likely of the two unformed systems was a broad tropical wave in the central tropical Atlantic west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands with limited showers and thunderstorms.

“Although dry air should prevent any significant development over the next day or two, environmental conditions should gradually become more favorable for development thereafter, and a tropical depression could form

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