Its odds of developing are at 20% within the next five days, according to experts. Regardless of development, it may bring heavy rain to the Florida Panhandle across to Louisiana over the next several days.
Activity is heating up in the tropics with three storm systems brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, one of which is likely to become a tropical depression this week, forecasters said.
A tropical depression is likely to form this week from a tropical wave making its way across the Atlantic toward the southeastern Caribbean, forecasters said Sunday. Another potential system is brewing along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
A tropical depression could form this week from a low pressure system over the southwestern Caribbean Sea. National Hurricane Center forecasters have given it a 40% chance of developing within the next five days.