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City workers capable sandbags astatine a drive-thru sandbag organisation lawsuit for residents up of the accomplishment of rains associated with tropical slump Fred, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, astatine Grapeland Park successful Miami. Forecasters accidental tropical slump Fred is dilatory strengthening and could regain tropical tempest presumption Friday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Three tropical systems were churning aboriginal Monday successful the Atlantic basin and threatening to interaction the U.S. Gulf Coast, immoderate Caribbean islands including earthquake-damaged Haiti, and the land territory of Bermuda.

Tropical Storm Fred was located successful the Gulf of Mexico and could marque landfall by Monday evening on the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. A tropical tempest informing and a tempest surge informing were successful effect for coastal areas.

Fred had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and was located 175 miles (285 kilometers) southbound of Panama City, Florida. It was traveling north-northwest astatine 6 mph (10 kph). Forecasters said the strategy could somewhat fortify earlier landfall.

The main threats from Fred were rainfall — anyplace from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) for Florida's Big Bend and Panhandle — and tempest surge. High h2o betwixt 3 to 5 feet (1 to 1.5 meters) could participate the country betwixt Indian Pass and the Steinhatchee River, depending connected the tide astatine the clip of Fred's arrival.

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Tropical slump Grace was dropping rainfall implicit Puerto Rico aboriginal Monday and forecast to determination implicit Hispaniola aboriginal successful the day. The hurricane halfway said forecasted rainfall betwixt 4 and 8 inches could origin flooding and imaginable mudslides for Haiti and the Dominican Republic done Tuesday.

Haiti was already dealing with the effects of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, which struck Saturday and was blamed for astir 1,300 deaths.

Grace was centered 200 miles (320 kilometers) east-southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and moving westbound astatine 15 mph (24 kph). Top winds were astir 35 mph (55 kph), with small alteration successful spot forecast during the adjacent fewer days.

Tropical slump 8 formed precocious Sunday adjacent Bermuda, and the hurricane halfway predicted it would go a tropical tempest sometime Monday. A tropical tempest ticker is successful effect for the island.

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The strategy had maximum sustained winds astir 35 mph (55 kph). It was located astir 135 miles (220 kilometers) east-northeast of Bermuda and expected to marque a “slow clockwise crook toward the west” implicit the adjacent fewer days, forecasters said successful an advisory. The halfway of the slump was forecast to determination eastbound and southbound of the land territory.

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Rodriguez reported from Havana.

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