Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are tracking five systems in the Atlantic Ocean, including one tropical storm and two tropical depressions. However, the system most likely to affect the United States was located in the Western Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico,

Tropical storm John was about 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (75 km per hour), the Miami-based forecaster said. The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.

The National Hurricane Center continued to keeps its focus Friday on what had been Category 4 major Hurricane Helene as it moved inland as a tropical storm, but also was keeping tabs on newly formed Tropical Storm Joyce and Hurricane Isaac in the Atlantic and two more systems with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.