The National Hurricane Center continued to forecast a medium chance of a tropical depression forming in the Gulf in the next few days.

However, the center of the system was over land on Wednesday morning.

Tropical depression or not, it still could bring some heavy rain to parts of the Gulf Coast through the end of the week.

The hurricane center said the area of low pressure, or Invest 93L, was between Panama City and Tallahassee, Fla., on Wednesday morning, and most of its rain and storms were to the southwest and over the Gulf.

The hurricane center expects the system to continue to track westward, and there’s a chance it could move out over the warm waters of the Gulf later today or tonight.

Forecasters think it will continue heading west and reach the Louisiana coast by Thursday.

If it makes it back out over water, and stays there, the hurricane center said a tropical depression could form before it moves fully inland by the end of the week.

Depression or no depression, the system could bring several inches of rain to the north-central Gulf Coast, including Alabama, through Friday.

The National Weather Service in Mobile thinks that the most rain with this system will likely fall closer to the coast, with scattered storms possible.

The day with the best chances for rain for southern Alabama looks to be on Thursday.

The system will cause choppy seas, and the risk for rip currents will increase to moderate by tonight and high, the highest level, on Thursday and Friday.

Here’s a look at expected rain totals through Saturday morning for areas closer to the coast:

With a weaker and more disorganized system, the weather service decided to hold off on any flash flood watches for Alabama so far.

There were no other areas being watched for potential tropical development as of Wednesday.