The tropical watch list is filling up, but is there anything to worry about?

The tropical Atlantic Ocean was littered with potentially dangerous areas Thursday as the climatological peak of the 2024 hurricane season approached on September 10.

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday highlighted five areas of potential development – including one near Texas in the Gulf of Mexico – but all had very little chance of becoming tropical depressions.

The area near Texas brought rain and storms to the northern Gulf Coast on Thursday. The hurricane center said a frontal boundary is expected to approach the area this weekend, limiting its chances of developing further.

The disturbance had only a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression in the coming days, but it could bring more heavy rain to parts of the northern Gulf Coast.

The second watch area was in the western Caribbean Sea on Thursday. On Thursday, there was a 30 percent chance it would develop, but those odds were higher earlier this week and at one point the hurricane center thought it might develop into a depression.

The hurricane center did not indicate that a depression was likely at this point, but said some development would be possible after the disturbance crosses Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and reaches the southwestern Gulf of Mexico this weekend into early next week.

A third possible area of ​​development was a nontropical low pressure area that was a few hundred miles east of North Carolina on Thursday. The hurricane center said it could strengthen into a subtropical system in the coming days as it tracks north-northeast.

Forecasters expect it to move away from the coast of the northeastern United States. There is a 20 percent chance it will become a tropical depression in the next seven days.

The next two disturbances occurred much further away.

One of them was in the central tropical Atlantic, several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. It is not expected to develop much over the next few days, but conditions could become a little more favorable for it to organize early next week. It has a 10 percent chance of developing into a depression sometime next week.

The final area to watch is in the far eastern tropical Atlantic. The hurricane center said the hurricane could slowly develop over the next few days as it moves northwest or north. It has a 20 percent chance of becoming a depression in the next seven days.

There have been five named storms so far in 2024, but the last two weeks have been unusually quiet in the tropical Atlantic, with no named storms or even potential storms.

The 2024 hurricane season is expected to be extremely busy, with NOAA predicting 17 to 24 named storms.

However, the season does not officially end until November 30.