The tropical Atlantic Ocean was littered with potential trouble spots on Thursday as the climatological peak of the 2024 hurricane season approaches on Sept. 10.

The National Hurricane Center highlighted five areas for potential development on Thursday — including one near Texas in the Gulf of Mexico — but all of them had very low chances of becoming tropical depressions.

The area near Texas was generating rain and storms across the northern Gulf Coast on Thursday. The hurricane center said a frontal boundary is expected to approach it this weekend, which will hamper its chances of developing further.

That disturbance had only a 10 percent probability of becoming a tropical depression in the next few days, but it could bring more heavy rain to parts of the northern Gulf Coast.

The second area being watched was in the western Caribbean Sea on Thursday. It had a 30 percent chance of development as of Thursday, but those odds had been higher earlier this week and at one point the hurricane center thought it could become a depression.

The hurricane center didn’t say a depression was likely at this point, but said some development will be possible after the disturbance crosses over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and into the southwestern Gulf of Mexico this weekend into early next week.

A third area of possible development was a non-tropical area of low pressure that was a few hundred miles east of North Carolina on Thursday. The hurricane center said it could transition into a subtropical-type system in the next few days as it tracks to the north-northeast.

Forecasters think it will away from the coast of the Northeast U.S. It has a 20 percent probability of becoming a tropical depression in the next seven days.

The next two disturbances were much farther away.

One was in the central tropical Atlantic, several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. It isn’t expected to develop much over the next few days, but conditions could become a bit more favorable for it to organize early next week. It has a 10 percent probability of becoming a depression in the next week.

The final area to watch was in the far eastern tropical Atlantic. The hurricane center said it could develop slowly over the next few days as it drifts to the northwest or northward. It has a 20 percent chance of becoming a depression in the next seven days.

There have been five named storms so far in 2024, but the past two weeks have been unusually quiet in the tropical Atlantic, with no named storms or even any potential storms.

The 2024 hurricane season had been expected to be extremely busy, with NOAA forecasting 17 to 24 named storms.

However, the season doesn’t officially end until Nov. 30.