The National Hurricane Center began advisories Wednesday on a system it forecasts to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm. Long-range forecast models predict it will intensify into a hurricane and threaten Florida by the middle of next week.

Hurricane and tropical storm watches have been issued for portions of Honduras and Nicaragua in the National Hurricane Center's latest update. The NHC said Wednesday afternoon that a disturbance in the Caribbean will likely become the latest tropical depression or storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season and is forecast to "strengthen and

The National Hurricane Center is continues to monitor a system in the Atlantic with low odds of developing into the seasons next tropical depression or storm and weakening Tropical Storm Rafael.