A new tropical depression or storm is likely to form in the Atlantic by the end of the week or over the weekend, and although it’s too soon to know where it could end up, the system is still about a week away from land.

A day after the peak of hurricane season, a new tropical disturbance has popped up in the eastern Atlantic. Will it impact South Carolina?

Following Hurricane Erin, Tropical Storm Gabrielle has the potential to be the next storm homeowners need to prepare for.

Activity is expected to ramp up, and a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic is likely to become a tropical depression later this week or weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center. AccuWeather forecasters are predicting it could become Tropical Storm Gabrielle before the weekend and could even become a hurricane by the end of the weekend.

A new tropical depression or storm is likely to form in the Atlantic by the end of the week or over the weekend, and although it’s too soon to know where it could end up, the system is still about a week away from land.

And today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center displays that most optimistic of Atlantic basin forecasts: an empty map labeled “no disturbances”—an indication that meteorologists don’t expect any tropical activity of note within the next seven days.

A tropical wave has been designated as Invest 91L. It's likely to become a tropical depression by the weekend.

But most of the other models still show the system getting its act together and becoming the next named storm of the season — Gabrielle — as it moves west toward the eastern Caribbean islands by the middle of next week.

The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to track an Atlantic system moving toward the Caribbean, but now only forecasts a low chance it could form into the season’s next tropical