Still, if the system maintains a core and decent structure during its time over land, there is plenty of warm water in the southern Gulf for it to reorganize and strengthen before it reaches Florida, if it heads that way. Seawater in the northern half of the Gulf is much cooler.

There is a strong consensus among the various computer forecast models that the tropical disturbance near Jamaica will organize into a tropical depression before the end of the week and pretty quickly develop into Tropical Storm Sara.

With less than a month left in the Atlantic hurricane season, another tropical wave of low atmospheric pressure in the Caribbean Sea is expected to develop into a stronger storm system in the coming days.

As the Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close, another potential tropical storm is forming in the Caribbean. "A tropical wave over the central Caribbean Sea is producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms,

Consensus of the computer forecast models show that the robust Tropical Disturbance south of the Dominican Republic will develop and eventually organize into a tropical depression or tropical storm.

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean with a 90% chance of strengthening into a serious storm over the next week.

"Not only does this have a significant chance of becoming a hurricane, but it may become a major hurricane very quickly," hurricane expert Alex DaSilva said

The season's next named storm, Sara, will likely form in the western Caribbean in the coming days. Here's what we know right now.