A low pressure system over the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico now has a 60 percent chance of becoming a storm in 48 hours, and could strengthen into a tropical depression in a day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The system was expected to move slowly north-westward over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and could bring heavy rainfall over portions of southern Mexico during the next couple of days, the Miami-based weather forecaster said.
But additional development was unlikely once it develops into a tropical depression, the NHC added.
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