Florida may see a tropical depression off its east coast sometime next week, but chances remain low, forecasters said. Another area of weather conducive to forming into a system is also being watched near Mexico.
In its 8 a.m. tropical weather update, the National Hurricane Center said a tropical depression could form by the middle of next week a few hundred miles northeast of the central Bahamas.
Where it may form included much of Florida’s east coast. If a system is born, it will then develop slowly as it moves away from the state in a west or west-northwestward way.
The NHC forecasts that it has zero chance of forming into a tropical depression in the next two days and a 30% chance in next seven days.
The hurricane center is also forecasting a broad area of low pressure could form over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
“Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the middle part of next week while the system moves slowly westward or west-northwestward,” the center said.
Regardless of formation, the disturbance is expected to cause several days of heavy rainfall across southern Mexico and Central America.
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