Meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain to the Florida peninsula later this week.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico that could evolve into a tropical storm and bring more rain to Florida only a week after Hurricane Helene ravaged the state.Helene made landfall last Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of around 140 mph near the city of Perry in the state's Big Bend region.
'A broad trough of low pressure is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms from the southwestern Caribbean Sea into the southern Gulf of Mexico,' the NHC said. 'Environmental conditions could support some gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form towards the end of this week or this weekend as the broader disturbance moves fully into the Gulf of Mexico. Interests along the U.S.
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