A​ tropical storm is expected to form in the northwest Caribbean Sea or southern Gulf of Mexico and eventually head toward either Florida or the northern Gulf Coast late this week, but details on its potential intensity,

A broad area of low pressure near the coast of Nicaragua today is expected to slowly organize this week and is likely to become a tropical depression or named storm by the middle of the week as it heads northward toward the U.

The National Hurricane Center says an area of low pressure in the Caribbean now has a high chance of developing this week, and millions of people living along the Gulf coast are being urged to prepare for the possibility of a tropical storm or hurricane impacting the region.

The heat continues through the first half of the week before a front makes it to the Gulf Coast dropping temperatures in the later half of the week. Rain chances will also return as tropical moisture moves into the Gulf.

Weather conditions will remain hot and dry through Tuesday. On Wednesday, a cold front is forecast to move through the region, which could bring a chance of scattered showers and

Sunny skies linger all weekend with slightly lower highs in the upper 80s and low 90s on Sunday for the first day of fall. This week, we are watching an area in the northwestern Caribbean and southern Gulf for potential tropical development.

A disturbance in the Caribbean is forecast to strengthen and gradually move into the Gulf of Mexico by the middle