Tropical wave has potential to develop in southwestern Gulf

The tropical moisture that is soaking us has almost no chance of development, the National Hurricane Center says, but a tropical wave over the Yucatan peninsula has a better chance of development when it emerges over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.

The low off the Texas coast is forecast to be absorbed by the front, although its rainfall still poses a flash flood risk.

As for the wave moving toward the Bay of Campeche, "the wave is forecast to move into the Bay of Campeche on Saturday, where it could then begin to interact with a frontal boundary," said Robbie Berg, Warning Coordination Meteorologist for the hurricane center. "A tropical depression could form during the early or middle part of next week while the system moves slowly northwestward over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico."

The wave has a medium chance of development, around 40 percent.

A low pressure system in the northwest Atlantic Ocean is creating a lot of wind, but is moving over colder waters and is not expected to develop.

In the central tropical Atlantic, a trough of low pressure is producing minimal showers and thunderstorms. "Development, if any, should be slow to occur while the disturbance meanders through the early part of next week and then begins to move west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic during the middle to latter part of next week," said Berg.