Model guidance is persistent in suggesting a landfall in Apalachee Bay, right in the heart of Florida's Big Bend region.

Forecasters say they expect Tropical Storm Helene in the Caribbean Sea to strengthen rapidly and become a hurricane as it moves north across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday toward the U.S. The Nationa

Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 was fighting some shear in the western Caribbean that was causing it to struggle to get organized Tuesday morning, but was forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Helene later in the day.