A tropical disturbance over southern Mexico has a 70 percent chance of being a tropical depression or Tropical Storm Alex by Sunday.
"Despite strong upper-level winds over the area, this system is likely to become a tropical depression while it moves northeastward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southeastern Gulf of Mexico late Thursday or Friday," said the National Hurricane Center in its 1 p.m. tropical weather outlook Tuesday.
WWL-TV Chief Meteorologist Chris Franklin seems less convinced, however.
"The models (are) not in great agreement with anything forming," said Franklin. "We'll see, but it's not going to be a threat for us."
Franklin says locally, the forecast is boring, and boring is good:
"For the first time since 2014, we will not have seen a pre-season storm develop (in the Atlantic)," said Franklin.





