Hurricane Sally uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Wednesday as it brought what the U.S. National Hurricane Center called "historic and catastrophic" flooding to the Alabama-Florida coast.

An area of low pressure in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean is expected to form as a tropical depression within the next day, becoming Tropical Storm Jerry not long after, forecasters said Tuesday morning.

A tropical wave in the central Atlantic has a high chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next seven days. Forecasters warned those in the Leeward Island to keep an eye on it. There is now also a low chance of a tropical disturbance moving into the southern Gulf. National Hurricane Center

A new tropical storm could form in the Atlantic this week and continue the 2025 hurricane season’s backloaded burst of tropical activity. Even though fewer storms tend to form now, in the late-season, history has shown how devastating they can be, particularly since development areas shift closer to land.

Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a category 2 hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S. Gulf Coast,

The chances that the Atlantic's 10th named storm, Jerry, could form over the next few days increased again slightly on Tuesday morning.

The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that a disorganized area of showers and storms could slowly develop as it moves across the Yucatán Peninsula and into Bay of Campeche through Wednesday. A key late-season feature to watch is the development of the Central American Gyre (CAG),