With Florida's Gulf Coast left reeling after back-to-back major hurricanes, our Tracking the Tropics team explains what could spare the region from experiencing a third storm within a month.

A disturbance in the central tropical Atlantic is expected to move west-northwestward by the end of the week, the National Hurricane Center said.

The compact tropical disturbance we've been following across the Atlantic will move near or just north of the northeastern Caribbean islands tomorrow.