Hurricane season kicks off with tropical disturbance headed toward Florida

Thursday marks the official launch of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season – and it’s starting with a storm already brewing off Florida’s coast. 

The National Hurricane Center season is tracking a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico. In the agency’s latest forecast early Thursday morning, it said that the low pressure area over the northeastern area of the Gulf has become “a little more concentrated” throughout the night and that conditions seem to be “marginally favorable” for the storm to develop.