The NBC2 First Alert Hurricane Tracking team is keeping track of several features in the tropics.
The strongest of the systems we are tracking is Hurricane Kirk.
Kirk is forecast to become a major hurricane on Thursday as it moves west-northwestward across the open Atlantic Ocean. Because of its location and movement, Kirk doesn't appear to be a threat to land.
The area closest to home we need to monitor is in the Caribbean Sea, where an area of low pressure could form in the next couple of days. As of Wednesday, the odds that this area of disturbed weather could evolve into at least a tropical depression over the next 7 days is at 40%.
Since the disturbance is several days out from forming, it's still too early to determine a specific track or intensity, but everyone along the U.S. Gulf Coast needs to monitor this closely. It's possible that regardless of development, this may be a heavy rainmaker for Florida into the weekend and early next week.
The last area we are watching in the tropics is a tropical wave in the far eastern tropical Atlantic with a 90% chance of developing in the next 7 days.
The disturbance is not considered a threat to land at this time.
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