Tropical disturbance headed for Gulf: What will it mean for Alabama?
The National Hurricane Center will be watching a tropical disturbance near the Southeast U.S. for the rest of the week.
Forecasters think the disturbance — which has a very low chance of development (10 percent) as of Wednesday — will move into the Gulf in the next day or two.
The hurricane center said some slow development will be possible as the system tracks to the west.
However, forecasters think it will move inland along the Gulf Coast — likely to the west of Alabama — by this weekend.
The National Weather Service in Mobile is not expecting the system to produce tropical-storm-type hazards for the Alabama coast.
But it could bring higher rain chances and tropical downpours to the coast and parts of Florida through the weekend, the hurricane center said.
It will also raise the risk for rip currents on Friday:
The Atlantic Basin (which includes the Gulf and Caribbean), has not had a named system since Tropical Storm Chantal moved inland in South Carolina on July 6.
The last day of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will be Nov. 30.
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