A disturbance in the Caribbean is set to strengthen into the next named storm of the season soon, and its future track could take it toward Florida by the middle of the week.

Hurricane Helene is forecast to rapidly intensify over the record-warm Gulf of Mexico before slamming into the United States’ Gulf Coast later this week. The storm has not formed yet but is expected to soon, so the National Hurricane Center has dubbed it Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine to warn of its imminent threat.