Rarely do the various computer model forecasts show the level of agreement that they do today for a developing system. A weather pattern is forecast to be in place this week that would seem to support a powerful hurricane moving north from the Caribbean ...

There is now a broader consensus among the various computer forecast models that a tropical system will develop in the western Caribbean or the southern Gulf of Mexico and track toward the Gulf Coast next week.

A system called Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine centered about 350 miles south-southeast of the western tip of Cuba has prompted tropical storm and hurricane watches in western Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico,