AccuWeather forecasters are keeping an eye on an area close to Florida which shows some potential for tropical development July 15-18.

Watches and warnings: A tropical storm watch has been issued from South Carolina's Edisto Beach to Little River Inlet. This menas tropical storm conditions are possible in the next 48 hours.

The Fourth of July holiday weekend could include a subtropical or tropical depression from near Florida to off the Southeast coast.

A disturbance off the coast of the southeast United States – east of Florida, near Georgia and South Carolina – became better organized Friday to become Tropical Depression 3. It was previously known as Invest 92L.

Hurricane Hunters found that the storm, previously known as Invest 92, has organized into a tropical depression.

AccuWeather: Warm waters along the eastern Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts could provide the fuel necessary for development of a tropical depression or tropical storm around or just after July 4.

After Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall in South Carolina over the Fourth of July weekend, the tropics are now quiet. Well, sort of. About 24 hours after landfall, Chantal is now a tropical depression, as it wanders across Virginia.

The National Hurricane Center, the Invest L-91 in the Atlantic has now upgraded to the third Tropical Depression of the 2025 hurricane season. At 5 p.m., the center of Tropical Depression Three was located moving toward the west-northeast at 6 mph.