The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle was showing signs of becoming a tropical depression on Thursday while moving towards the northern Gulf Coast, officials said

Invest 93L is taking its time moving across Florida, and it could still become a tropical depression later this week.

A disturbance called Invest 93L by the National Hurricane Center could turn into a tropical depression or the next named storm of hurricane season.

The system is threatening to bring heavy rain and the risk of flash floods to the northeastern and central Gulf Coast this week, and could become a tropical depression within days.

"Environmental conditions appear generally favorable for additional development, and a tropical depression could form." Hagen says that regardless of development, heavy rainfall could produce localized flash flooding. He currently gives it a 40% chance of ...

Current projections call for 4 to 8 inches of rain from Florida through coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, with isolated totals as high as 16 inches.Wind gusts could reach 40 to 60 mph in parts of southeastern Louisiana,