Season's next hurricane — Francine — seems to be forming in Gulf of Mexico, forecasters say
CBSN
A tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was shaping up as what could be the season's next hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said early Monday. It would be called Francine and end a brief lull that hurricane-prone regions were enjoying.
The hurricane center said the system is expected to become a tropical storm Monday and a hurricane before it makes landfall, likely over the northwestern U.S. Gulf shoreline Wednesday, bringing with it an "increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds along the Louisiana and upper-Texas coasts."
The system was expected to dump 4-8 inches of rain in many areas and up to a foot in some places, forecasters said.
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