Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.T​ropical development is possible from the northwestern Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico later this week into next week,

The latest tropical disturbance has spawned in a similar part of the western Caribbean Sea as Hurricane Helene. The system is large but disorganized at the moment, producing some shower and thunderstorm activity over the western and southwestern Caribbean Sea.

A tropical disturbance that tracked across the Caribbean is interacting with a broad low-pressure system over Central America. Computer forecasts indicate that a tropical depression or tropical storm could form and head into the Gulf of Mexico later this week.