There's now a 40% chance for a tropical or subtropical depression forming near Florida by the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

There is now a 60 percent chance that a tropical depression forms near the United States this Independence Day weekend, but those along the Gulf Coast can breathe easier for now. The National Hurricane Center has shifted where forecasters think the disturbance will form from the Gulf to the southwestern Atlantic, off the Southeast coast.

Widespread rain and thunderstorms are expected to continue for Northeast Florida and the peninsula into early next week.