For the first time in almost a week, the tropics are quiet, after Invest 93L took most of the week to cross Florida, enter the Gulf and then move onshore in Louisiana Thursday afternoon, July 17. No tropical activity is expected over the next seven days,

The National Hurricane Center say they are monitoring a broad area of low pressure in the tropics which has a low chance of development over the next week.

A system was detected off the Atlantic Coast of Florida and is expected to move into the northern Gulf Coast and develop into a tropical depression.

A system that has been producing heavy rain and thunderstorms across Florida could become a tropical depression later this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

A tropical weather system near the Florida Panhandle is showing a moderate chance of becoming a tropical depression.