Hurricane forecasters have their eyes on a tropical disturbance brewing off the coast of the Southeast United States that has a moderate chance of formation into a cyclone − but could become a tropical or subtropical depression as early as the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The tropical depression, on Friday, July 4, became the third weather system of this hurricane season. The system was moving toward the Southeast coast, near the Carolinas, on the Fourth of July before it became a named depression. Tropical depression three is forecasted to become Tropical Storm Chantal and could be named over the weekend.