Forecasters Watching Florida for Potential Gulf Storm
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As storms Odile and Edouard take tracks farther out to sea, the chances for a low-pressure system now over Florida to develop into a tropical system this weekend have dropped slightly.
The low, expected to bring flooding rains across southern Florida, will encounter upper-level winds as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico overnight that hurt its chances of becoming a tropical depression or storm, Lixion Avila, a senior hurricane specialist at the center, wrote in a briefing.