Sign up for our Newsletters"A broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the Gulf of Mexico this weekend or early next week, but subsequent tropical or subtropical development could be limited by the system's potential interaction with a frontal boundary,

A tropical depression could form in a few days over the southern Gulf of Mexico or northwestern Caribbean Sea. But what happens after that?

Kirk — the eleventh named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season — is moving northwest at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, forecasters said. The hurricane is expected to rapidly intensify over the week before fully dissipating by overnight Monday, the NHC said.