Maybe whoa: We're in the cone of probability for a possible big storm over the weekend

UPDATE, 2:30 p.m. The storm now has a name: Hermine.

The National Hurricane Center reports there's a chance a storm in the Gulf of Mexico now known prosaically as Tropical Depression 9 could churn up the coast and smack us with heavy rains, high tides and strong winds by Monday.

The storm, which has been slowly meandering across the Atlantic for more than a week before finally ending up in the Gulf, might finally be getting better organized over the warm Gulf waters. A hurricane watch is already up for parts of Florida's northern Gulf coast.

Over at Weather Underground, meteorologist Jeff Daniels writes it doesn't look like the storm, which might eventually get named Hermine, will become a full-blown hurricane, but that it could still bring some much needed rain to New England - along with some much unneeded high winds - and that two forecasting models show it as a tropical storm sitting just south of New England late Sunday into Monday. He adds:

The uncertainties are high at this point, though - the diameter of NHC’s cone of uncertainty for their 5-day track forecast is about 550 miles.