New disturbance emerges in Gulf of Mexico; tropical depression to form in Atlantic by midweek

Activity is heating back up in the tropics, with National Hurricane Center forecasters watching for potential development of a low-pressure system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and another off Africa. A tropical depression is expected to form by midweek from the tropical wave off Africa as it moves west-northwest. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time Monday, the National Hurricane Center had given …