The National Hurricane Center says a low pressure system in the Bay of Campeche has a 50/50 chance of becoming a tropical depression or named storm over the next week.
A broad area of low pressure is forecast to form over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico early next week", said Dr. Jack Beven, Senior Hurricane Specialist with the NHC. "Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the middle part of next week while the system moves slowly westward or west-northwestward."
WWL-TV meteorologist Alexa Trischler says weather patterns will keep this system far away from the northern gulf.
"The upper pattern over the Gulf looks to keep this feature well south," Alexa said. "A lot of the tropical moisture in the central and northern Gulf early next week may be drawn toward this system, and become diverted away from us."
Alexa said the system is not a threat to Louisiana.
