tropical depression

Tropical Depression 2 is set to become Tropical Storm Bertha as it travels mainly due west during the next few days. Gulf waters are warm and could strengthen this system if it stays well away from the Gulf Coast.

Four areas of tropical development are still being monitored in the Atlantic basin. Of highest interest is a broad area of low pressure over the central tropical Atlantic.

Four areas of tropical development are now being monitored in the Atlantic basin.

The system has a 60% chance of development by the end of the week.

A summer tropical depression unleashed days of pounding rain in the central and southern Philippines. Rescuers were struggling with mud and unstable heaps of earth and debris to find missing people.

Wind and surge impacts could vary greatly in some places depending on Fred's track, but the greatest hazard to most Floridians will be heavy rain and potential flooding.

Tropical Depression Claudette is expected to return to a tropical storm status before it hits the North Carolina coast. The storm will bring torrential rain and high waters.

It could become Tropical Storm Wilfred on Friday and is forecast to shift west toward Texas this weekend.

Tropical Depression Seventeen and Tropical Depression Eighteen are both located in the eastern Atlantic.