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Hurricane forecasters were monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that has a high chance of developing into a depression and is expected to bring several inches of rain to the region. 

According to the 7 p.m. Monday update from the National Hurricane Center, the disturbance has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression within the next five days. It’s also one of three systems forecasters were tracking on Monday evening, including a tropical depression off the East Coast.

Here’s what we know from the National Hurricane Center about the tropics as of 7 p.m. Monday.

Gulf of Mexico disturbance

Forecasters said a low pressure system will likely develop into a tropical depression late in the week in the Gulf of Mexico. 

On Monday evening, an area of disorganized storms was over the Bay of Campeche and is expected to gradually strengthen while it meanders near the coast of Mexico.

By midweek, the system should begin to move north.

The NHC has not said if and where the system will hit the Gulf Coast, but Louisiana could get up to 4 to 10 inches of rain on Friday, with some areas seeing more than 10 inches, regardless of development.

The shaded area on the graphic is where a storm could develop and is not a track. The National Hurricane Center releases a track when a tropical depression forms or is about to form.

The categories, in order of increasing strength, are tropical depression, tropical storm and hurricane (categories 1 through 5). Systems are named when they develop into a tropical storm.

Tropical depression in the Atlantic

A system off the coast of North Carolina strengthened into a tropical depression earlier Monday and will likely develop into the second named tropical storm of the year by tonight, forecasters said. It will be named Bill. 

The tropical depression is forecast to move away from the East Coast and therefore doesn’t pose an immediate threat to land.

The storm’s center was about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as of 7 p.m., according to the National Hurricane Center. It has winds of 35 mph and is moving northeast at 18 mph.

Forecasters said the system is only expected to strengthen slightly after becoming a tropical storm. It will dissipate by Wednesday south of Nova Scotia.

A strong tropical wave off of Africa’s west coast was also being monitored Monday evening. It has a 20% (low) chance of developing into a depression within the next five days. 

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.

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