Forecasters say tropical depression Fred is slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status Friday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the system is moving along the northern coast of Cuba on a forecast track toward Florida.
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a Tropical Storm Fred in the Caribbean as it passes south of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic at 8am EST, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.
HAVANA — Tropical depression Fred was slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status sometime on Friday, forecasters said. The main threats were rain and flooding. Forecasters issued a tropical storm watch Thursday evening for the Florida Keys and the state’s southwest coast. The hurricane center said 3 to 6 inches of rain were expected across the Florida Keys and southern peninsula by Monday, with isolated maximums of 8 inches .
Once a tropical storm, Fred weakened back to a depression by its spin over Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where it knocked out power to some 400,000 customers and caused flooding that forced officials to shut down part of the country’s aqueduct system, interrupting water service for hundreds of thousands of people.Local officials reported hundreds of people were evacuated and some buildings were damaged. There were no immediate reports of casualties.The Miami-based U.S.
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