Forecasts suggested widespread rainfall totals between 2 and 4 inches, with isolated areas seeing as much as 7 inches by Tuesday evening. Authorities emphasized the risk posed by flooding, including rapidly rising waters in streams and dangerous road conditions in both cities and rural areas.

A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week. National

If the storm were to speed up, it would push the tropical rain across the central Gulf Coast. A storm which stalls over the Gulf or Louisiana could result in more widespread heavy rain and flooding.

A disturbance dubbed Invest 93L could become Tropical Storm Dexter as it tracks west from Florida toward Louisiana, forecasters say.

Odds of development are increasing with this disturbance near FL, and a tropical depression or storm could form sometime later in the week. Next name on the list is #Dexter. The good news is, it's headed west—into the Gulf and away from the Carolinas. pic.twitter.com/m3s4KQ6Hqe

Florida on Tuesday wasn’t even a tropical anything but has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as