The National Hurricane Center is giving a tropical low over the Bay of Campeche a 40 percent chance of development over the next two days, and an 80 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or Tropical Storm Claudette through the next five days.
"This system is expected to move little during the next day or two," said hurricane center forecasters. "The disturbance should begin to move northward by Thursday, and a tropical depression is likely to form late in the week when the low moves across the central and northwestern Gulf of Mexico."
Forecasters say they don't expect the system develop much further than that, but they do expect it to be a major rain maker.
"Everyone tends to focus on what category it is and the wind and we try to say all the time that each one of these storms is a different animal and they all have different personalities, this one’s personality is going to be heavy, heavy rain," said National Weather Service forecaster Ben Schott.
"All the models have been amazingly consistent that somewhere between Lake Charles and Mobile, Alabama is going to get drenched this weekend in a way that has the possibility for flooding," Schott said.