National Hurricane Center forecasters are monitoring a trio of systems including Tropical Storm Phillippe, a system off Africa could become a tropical depression by midweek and a low-pressure

National Hurricane Center forecasters are monitoring a trio of systems including Tropical Storm Philippe, a system off Africa could become a tropical depression by midweek and a low-pressure system that emerged Sunday afternoon in the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Hurricane Center continues to track the season’s 16th named storm in Tropical Storm Philippe while keeping tabs on another system with a chance to become the season’s 17th.

On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said Tropical Depression 17 strengthened into Tropical Storm Philippe. The storm is located about 1,175 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands and had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Philippe is currently moving west at 12 mph.

Storm Philippe was upgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday night, making it the 16th named storm of the hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Philippe formed on Saturday, becoming the latest named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center estimated that the storm had sustained winds of 50 miles per hour,