Low pressure is expected to emerge over the Gulf of Mexico this week and it may move into a favorable environment for tropical cyclone development.

It may or may not develop into a tropical depression, but the system will bring rains and the possibility of flooding. Here's the forecast for New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

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Is it merely another drippy week along the Gulf Coast—or perhaps the beginning of something much more significant? With the Atlantic hurricane season cranking up, everyone is following a large area of showers and thunderstorms chugging westward from the Florida Panhandle into the Gulf of Mexico.

National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance expected to bring heavy rain and thunderstorms to the Treasure Coast this week.

A disturbance hurricane forecasters were tracking Saturday in the Gulf of Mexico could bring heavy rains to the region next week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

A disorganized low-pressure area off Florida is showing increasing chances of becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm this week.

Its chances for tropical development are less, but rainfall flooding is a threat, regardless, in the lower Mississippi Valley. Here's our latest forecast.