The National Hurricane Center began advisories Wednesday on a system it forecasts to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm. Long-range forecast models predict it will intensify into a hurricane and threaten Florida by the middle of next week.

The NHC said Wednesday it is tracking a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea that could become a tropical depression by the end of the week.

Hurricane and tropical storm watches have been issued for portions of Honduras and Nicaragua in the National Hurricane Center's latest update. The NHC said Wednesday afternoon that a disturbance in the Caribbean will likely become the latest tropical depression or storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season and is forecast to "strengthen and