Tropical depression could form next week, but likely won't impact North Carolina

As of Saturday, the National Hurricane Center is watching a new area for potential tropical development.

"Right now, it is quiet though across the Atlantic," said WRAL meteorologist Zach Maloch. "That's pretty typical for this time of year."

A few tropical waves will be coming off the coast of Africa soon, but they won't be developing into anything tropical anytime soon, according to Maloch.

The area that does have a chance for development is in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Mexico and South America.

The National Hurricane Center has given the system a 40 percent chance of development over the next 5 days.

If it develops, the storm would be named Bill.

"We see it maybe becoming a closed-surface circulation by maybe Thursday, potentially even Friday and that's when we may be tracking a tropical depression in the western Gulf of Mexico," said Maloch.

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Don't worry -- most systems in the western Gulf of Mexico don't impact North Carolina at all, according to Maloch, or even the entire east coast of Carolinas.

The storm would more likely impact Texas or Louisiana.