A developing Gulf system could bring impacts to Louisiana as early as Friday night, with forecasters watching the potential for Invest 92L to strengthen into a tropical storm or hurricane later this week.
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed Wednesday as the National Hurricane Center tracks two other Atlantic systems, including one with an 80% chance of development.
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression will likely form later this week as an area of low pressure moves westward across the central tropical Atlantic.
Colorado State University researchers have lowered their 2026 Atlantic hurricane season forecast again, now predicting a well below-normal season due to El Niño.
