A large, slowly-spinning system across the northern Caribbean and southern Gulf of Mexico could develop into something serious, forecasters said.

In the days since Houston and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast watched Hurricane Francine slam into neighboring southern Louisiana on Sept. 11, National Hurricane Center forecasters are now warily watching Tropical Storm Gordon,

The National Hurricane Center is tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic that have a small chance of becoming tropical depressions or storms.