SSTs are growing in the Gulf, and there are some dangerously warm temps down near Cuba:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/SST/PAC/20.jpg
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb/atl_anal.gif

You can see the anomalies here:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb/atl_anom.gif

Katrina's upwelling hasn't been completely undone, but it's nearly there. Before the next system hits that part of the Gulf the SSTs should be back to above normal.

I'm not liking what's out in the Atlantic. Those waves look like they'll develop eventually. Every last one of them. SAL isn't replenishing, and what's there is dispersing. It's not going to impede development:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/wavetrak/winds/m8g10split.html

The next week is going to be...interesting. I wish I didn't have to use that word.

--RC