My hunch is that they’ll both veer to the north. Hurricanes sometimes form a conga line in the Atlantic and they follow the one in front of them (where the low pressure is).
There are many variables affecting a storm path. The models for Florence are rather tightly clustered.
Isaac will stay to the south, taking the southern route toward the gulf, peter out and might(?) reform in the western gulf.
Helene will boomerang to the north and be more of a concern for the Brits.*
* - I reserve the right to adjust my predictions as nature's reality (and the GPS tracker on Jim Cantore's weather van) dictate.
Your hunch is very wrong. Flo is headed for the Mid-Atlantic States and it's going to be a terrible disaster. I've been a pro-met for 31 years...and this is a terrible setup.
Heres some info about how it will stall
However, the extremely strong upper-level ridge of high pressure to the north will act as an atmospheric brick wall and force Florence to slow down to a crawl in its attempt to move northward. This slow down will allow for an extended period of heavy rainfall in the region from the Carolinas to the southern Mid-Atlantic and perhaps as far north as the Delmarva Peninsula, Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the period from the end of the week to the early part of next week.
Starting to push south.