Sign up for our Newsletters"A broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the Gulf of Mexico this weekend or early next week, but subsequent tropical or subtropical development could be limited by the system's potential interaction with a frontal boundary,

A disturbed area of weather in the Gulf of Mexico will make for an extended period of squally weather for the Florida Peninsula. The heaviest rainfall is expected to be from the Interstate 4 corridor and southward,

The system is in the Central American Gyre — a large low-pressure area that forms over Central America in the spring and fall. It creates storms and spin from the eastern Pacific into the Caribbean, and can unleash hurricanes and tropical storms near the end of hurricane season.