July is typically when Atlantic hurricane season begins to pick up in the Gulf of Mexico, and right on cue, the first intriguing development of the summer is causing forecasters to take note. A low pressure system producing showers east of Florida is expected to move across the Sunshine State over the next 36 hours and reach the northeastern Gulf,

The National Hurricane Center will be keeping an eye on the Gulf this week. All was quiet on Sunday, but forecasters think a tropical disturbance could develop there in a few days. As of Sunday it had a low probability (20 percent) of becoming even a tropical depression in the next seven days,