Tropical Weather System Strengthens As It Moves Toward Gulf

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say a tropical weather system moving toward the Gulf of Mexico is strengthening.
The National Hurricane Center said Friday that a low pressure system in the northwestern Caribbean Sea has become better defined overnight and could be a tropical depression or storm by Saturday. The center put chances of formation at 90 percent over the next two days.
The system sits east of the Yucatan Peninsula and is moving northward. Forecasters say heavy rains are likely across w