The National Hurricane Center is currently keeping tabs on two tropical disturbances, including one in the Atlantic that could bring heavy rain to the coastal portions of the Carolinas late this week.

The hurricane center said early Wednesday morning that showers and thunderstorms located over the Florida peninsula, southeastern Georgia, and the northwestern portion of the Bahamas are associated with a "broad trough of low pressure" and that a "non-tropical low pressure area" is forecast to form from this system in the next couple of days.

"If the low spends time offshore, it could gradually develop some subtropical or tropical characteristics late this week," the hurricane center said, noting that regardless of development, periods of heavy rainfall are possible for coastal portions

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