NHC: System To Bring Heavy Rainfall To Florida

ORLANDO, Florida – NOAA’s National Hurricane Center issued a Tropical Weather Outlook at 2 PM Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, due to the presence of a system that may form into a tropical cyclone within the next 7 days off the Gulf coast of Florida.

Regardless of tropical cyclone formation, locally heavy rainfall is possible for portions of Central Florida over the next day or so, and for the northern Gulf coast and Florida Panhandle through this weekend.

If this system develops into a tropical storm or hurricane, the next name on the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane List is Dexter.

NHC forecasters say that a trough of low pressure near northern Florida is producing a few showers and thunderstorms.

Over the next day or two, this system is forecast to move west-southwestward into the north-central portion of the Gulf where some slow development is possible. By this weekend, the system is likely to move inland, ending its chances for development.

This system has a 10% chance of tropical cyclone formation within the next 7 days and a 10% chance within the next 48 hours.

NOAA forecasts an “above-normal” 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which runs from June 1 through November 30.

Although peak hurricane season isn’t until September 10, hurricane and tropical storm activity begins to pick up in July, according to NOAA and the National Weather Service’s historical hurricane activity data.