The remnants of Hurricane Agatha are headed toward Florida.
Although the Sunshine State does not appear to be in jeopardy of being hit by something as powerful as a hurricane, the Florida Keys, southern Florida, and Cuba have been advised to monitor the progress of the system, which could form into a tropical depression and bring about heavy rainfall by the end of the week and into the weekend.
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"A large and complex area of low pressure is expected to develop near the Yucatan Peninsula and the northwestern Caribbean Sea in a couple of days," the National Hurricane Center said in a Tuesday afternoon bulletin, adding that it is "partially related to the remnants of Agatha from the eastern Pacific."
HIGH CHANCE of a depression or tropical storm forming near the Yucatan late week, associated with the remnants of #AGATHA.
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Agatha made a record-setting landfall on the southern coast of Mexico as a category 2 hurricane — the strongest hurricane on record in the eastern Pacific basin to make landfall in May.
The storm quickly lost strength, but a "highly likely solution is for moisture and residual energy from Agatha to give birth to a new storm system on the Atlantic side," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Courtney Travis said in a report published Tuesday.
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The National Hurricane Center gives the system a 70% of formation into a tropical depression as it moves northeastward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southeastern Gulf of Mexico in the next five days. Should it develop as such, the storm will be dubbed Alex — the first named system for the Atlantic this year.
"Hurricane season is right around the corner, and we need your help in the Florida State Guard to keep Floridians safe," Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted on Tuesday. In fact, the Atlantic hurricane season starts on Wednesday.