The Gulf of Mexico remains in a wait-and-see pattern as meteorologist track a patch of weather that could swirl into a tropical depression by the middle of next week. As of early Saturday, the National Hurricane Center put the likelihood of the system forming within the next week at 60 percent.

Forecasters are continuing to watch a low pressure system in the Caribbean Sea that could develop into a tropical system by the middle of next week. The system is currently a large cluster of scrambled thunderstorms in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Gulf Coast should keep an eye on possible tropical development in the northwest Caribbean and southern Gulf next week.