With less than a month left of hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring multiple areas with tropical potential. After Rafael regained its Category 3 status on Friday, it quickly weakened into a tropical storm.

Reasonable tracks for the end of the week range from west toward Mexico or Texas to north toward the Florida Panhandle.

National Hurricane Center forecasters say there's a 70% chance that a system develops over the southwestern Caribbean Sea over the next two days.

The National Hurricane Center said Rafael is now a post-tropical remnant, and that it is currently tracking a system in the Caribbean Sea.

Rafael weakened on Saturday and is expected to remain a tropical storm in the central Gulf of Mexico from Sunday into Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced. On Saturday morning, the agency said the storm was about 290 miles of Progreso,

The National Hurricane Center is continues to monitor a system in the Atlantic with low odds of developing into the seasons next tropical depression or storm and weakening Tropical Storm Rafael. As of the NHC 7 a.

Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to weaken by Monday morning, days after it slammed into Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. On Wednesday, Rafael made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane,

Hurricane Rafael was downgraded to a tropical storm as it continued westward in the Gulf of Mexico posing no threat to land for now while the National Hurricane Center kept track of another system with low odds to develop into the next tropical depression or storm.