South and Central Florida are likely to get 3 inches or more of rainfall between Sunday and Tuesday. Some forecasts predict more than a foot of rain.

An area of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico could bring several inches of rain to parts of Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, by early next week.

A tropical system stirring in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to douse portions of the Florida Peninsula and Mexico with rain, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain to the Florida peninsula later this week.

A cold front is expected to drop from the north and stall over the Florida peninsula, potentially interacting with several low-pressure systems forming in the Gulf of Mexico.

FOX 13 meteorologist Valerie Mills is keeping an eye on the active tropics as we end September. So far there has been 11 named storms, with Tropical Storm Kirk forming on Monday morning. Mills is watching a system in the Caribbean that has a 40% chance of developing over the next week.

A developing storm, which may or may not get a name, could bring 4 to 8 inches of rain across central and southern Florida, with up to a foot not impossible in spots.

As the Tampa Bay area works to recover from Hurricane Helene, a tropical disturbance is pulling moisture into the Gulf of Mexico, and that's expected to lead to heavy rain – but how soon will that happen?