While keeping an eye on the tropics, as hurricane season warms up, an offshore disturbance on the east coast of Florida is forecasted to produce heavy rainfall, which could lead to localized flash flooding over portions of Florida and the north-central Gulf Coast through the middle of this week.

The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday continued to project a medium chance that a system moving over Florida would emerge into the Gulf and develop into the season’s next tropical

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As a system of low pressure crosses into the Gulf of America, heavy rain is expected across much of Florida during the work week.