Tropical depression headed to North Carolina

The depression was located 400 miles east of the coast of North Carolina as of late Sunday morning.

Hurricane Gaston was around 655 miles east-southeast of Bermuda and was moving northwest at 8 mph as of 11 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said. Maximum sustained winds are 35 miles per hour.

Its center of the storm is expected to pass offshore of the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday.

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Weather officials are already monitoring Hurricane Gaston and another tropical depression in the Atlantic, with both kicking up sea swells that are bringing strong rip currents along a possible threat of erosion to Brevard County. Forecasters anticipate Gaston will make an eastward turn and head out into the open Atlantic over the next few days. The hurricane had previously weakened to a tropical storm before regaining strength Saturday. It has a 40 percent chance of development over the next 48 hours.

The storm remains a rain threat to the entire Gulf Coast, as various forecasts have it tracking toward Texas, Louisiana or Florida’s west coast.

Also, a pair of minor disturbances are in the Gulf of Mexico.

By next week, there could be a new tropical wave to watch.

A slow-moving tropical disturbance in the Florida Straights has organized into Tropical Depression Nine and could move through the Lowcountry later this week. The storm is dropping heavy rains in an already saturated state.

In the central Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Madeline should approach Hawaii this week, moving over or near the Big Island by Wednesday, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.