The real uncertainty in the forecast comes over the weekend ... If it has spent no or limited time over Central America, a legitimate hurricane threat to the Florida peninsula is a realistic scenario. Most likely, that conditional threat would focus ...

A major hurricane expected to develop on the Gulf Coast could hit Florida by the middle of next week as a Category 2 storm, according to forecasters. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has designated the system in the central Caribbean Sea as Tropical Depression 19.