Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.The next tropical storm in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be Helene, a name that has history dating to the early years of naming tropical cyclones.

There is a 70 percent chance of the system becoming a tropical storm within the next 48 hours, the National Hurricane Center said.

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday increased odds that a developing system could head into the Gulf of Mexico and become a tropical depression or storm — while it also kept tabs on two systems in the Atlantic.