For Florida, the bottom line: no direct landfall impacts are expected, but rough seas, rip currents, and dangerous beach conditions will develop early next week.

As Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine continues strengthening, the path of this system could scrape along the Atlantic Coastline of Florida.

The National Hurricane Center's 2 a.m. Saturday advisory reported that the potential tropical cyclone is in the Atlantic Ocean, 135 miles northwest of the Eastern Tip of Cuba and 145 miles south of the Central Bahamas. Packing maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, it is tracking northwest at 8 mph.

We are mostly dry across central Alabama tonight. Some heavy rain is falling in far southeast central Alabama.

Strengthening Humberto and developing Imelda staying just off our coast will have some coastal impacts of large swells next week.

Periods of showers and thunderstorms are expected as a cold front stalls across the eastern portions of the Carolinas, a Robeson County Administration/Government said, with one to two inches of rain forecast for across the area and up to three inches possible locally in some areas between Friday afternoon and Sunday evening.

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine is forecast to strengthen into Imelda as it moves toward the Carolinas, bringing threats of strong winds, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding early next week. Forecasters warn that impacts could include power outages,

Two tropical cyclones are barreling through the Atlantic on a potential collision course — and if they clash, a freak weather event merging them into one monster storm could wreak havoc along the East Coast.