The place to watch in Florida is the Western Caribbean, where an area of low pressure could form next week and enter the Gulf of Mexico.

Death toll continues to rise in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas as Hurricane Helene tears into the US south-east

Hurricane Helene plowed into Florida with catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds, then dumped prolific rainfall inland over the Southeast, triggering extreme flash flooding and record river flooding in the Carolinas and Tennessee.

Along with the expected hurricane in the Gulf, a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic is likely to become a tropical depression later this week.