The National Hurricane Center on Monday increased its forecast chances a system already dumping rain on Florida could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

"Should development take place on the Atlantic side of Florida, it may once again drift northward toward the U.S. coast," Accuweather said on July 11. The more plausible option is development on the Gulf side, which could be steered westward along the northern Gulf Coast, the weather forecast company stated.

The Gulf of Mexico is under the watchful eye of the National Hurricane Center as a cluster of storms off Florida shows signs of tropical development. As these storms head west into the Gulf's warm waters,