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Florida's Gulf Coast is bracing for the potential of a significant hurricane landfall later this week, as a possible tropical storm that could ultimately become Hurricane Helene is organizing in the Caribbean.

A tropical disturbance is actively strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads toward the Big Bend and Florida Panhandle region of the coast.