The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 60 percent chance a tropical depression will move into the Gulf of Mexico over the next five days.

1. HURRICANE CENTER SAYS TROPICAL DEPRESSION
MAY FORM AS SOON AS FRIDAY, THEN MOVE INTO
GULF
The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 60 percent chance
a tropical depression will move into the Gulf of Mexico over the
next five days.
But now they’re saying it could form as soon as Friday near the
Bahamas.

2. Forecasters on Wednesday continued to monitor a trough of
low pressure that stretched from near Cuba through the
southeastern Bahamas into the southwestern Atlantic.
Conditions appear favorable for it to strengthen, and the
hurricane center said a tropical depression could form as soon
as Friday near South Florida or the northwestern Bahamas,
which were battered by Hurricane Dorian just days ago.
It is then forecast to cross the Florida Straits or South Florida
and into the eastern Gulf by the weekend, the hurricane center
said.
And it’s there that conditions could continue to be favorable for
it to develop.
A storm has to have a closed, defined center of circulation and
winds of at least 39 mph to be considered a
and get a name.

3. The next name on the list is Humberto (oom-BAIR-toh).
Could it become Humberto? It’s too early to say. But the
National Weather Service in Mobile was keeping an eye on it on
Wednesday.
If nothing else, the system could bring higher rain chances and
cooler temperatures to at least part of Alabama this weekend,
forecasters said.
How far north those cooler temperatures reach is still in
question depending on the system’s track, but the weather
service in Birmingham said rain chances could increase for
central Alabama from Sunday through Tuesday.
The hurricane center is also tracking two other tropical waves
farther out in the Atlantic. Both had low chances of
development as of Wednesday afternoon.
The second tropical wave was located between the west coast of
Africa and the Cabo Verde Islands.

4. It is forecast to move quickly to the west and could develop
slowly over the next few days — but it won’t approach the
Lesser Antilles until at least early next week.
It has a 30 percent chance of development over the next five
days, which is up from 20 percent this morning.