An active 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season continues as Rafael strengthens into a category 1 storm. It's expected to batter Cayman Islands and Cuba before swinging into the Gulf of Mexico.

A new area to watch has been highlighted by the National Hurricane Center in the southwestern Caribbean Sea. For now, the odds of development are low over the next week, but the FOX Forecast Center believes those odds could increase as we move closer to the final month of the Atlantic hurricane season.

National Hurricane Center forecasters say there's a 70% chance that a system develops over the southwestern Caribbean Sea over the next two days.