All of Florida in cone of Tropical Storm Fred

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After a quiescent period with nary named storms successful the region, Tropical Storm Fred became the sixth of the Atlantic hurricane play arsenic expected precocious Tuesday and tempest warnings were already successful effect for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

The 5 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center showed Fred 115 miles east-southeast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. It was moving west-northwest astatine 16 mph.

A Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for the country’s southbound seashore from Punta Palenque eastward and connected the northbound seashore from the Dominican Republic/Haiti borderline eastward.

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Fred is expected to weaken erstwhile the strategy interacts with Hispaniola aboriginal today, but that whitethorn alteration arsenic the tempest hits the warmer Caribbean waters arsenic it nears Florida aboriginal successful the week.

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Hurricane Center yet upgraded Potential Tropical Storm 6 to a tropical tempest astatine Thursday’s 11 p.m. update Hurricane Hunters were capable to find somewhat stronger winds and a tiny driblet successful the cardinal pressure. Of course, this is good corroborated by awesome outer images successful caller hours.

Fred is inactive a agelong mode disconnected from perchance impacting Jacksonville, but we’re connected the borderline of the forecast cone that projects it could scope South Florida by Saturday.

Sunday-Monday would beryllium the earliest. Forecast models are successful statement that implicit the adjacent 3 to 4 days the tempest should way close implicit the islands of Puerto Rico, past Hispaniola and past conscionable northbound of Cuba.

That way would permission Fred weak, with small accidental of accelerated intensification. RI, oregon accelerated intensification, is simply a process wherever a tropical strategy intensifies quickly, thing that does commonly hap successful the months of August, September and aboriginal October.

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This seems improbable for this way straight implicit the islands.

The way has the strategy approaching South Florida aboriginal Friday, nearing the Middle Keys and little Keys.

A Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for:

• Puerto Rico, including Culebra and Vieques

• Dominican Republic connected the southbound seashore from Punta Palenque eastward and connected the northbound seashore from Cabo Frances Viejo eastward

A Tropical Storm Watch is successful effect for:

• Dominican Republic connected the northbound seashore from Cabo Frances Viejo to the Dominican Republic/Haiti border

• Haiti from the bluish borderline with the Dominican Republic to Gonaives

A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical tempest conditions are expected determination wrong the informing country wrong 36 hours. A Tropical Storm Watch means that tropical tempest conditions are imaginable wrong the ticker area.

After an progressive archetypal period of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the tropics person been quiet. This year’s 5th named tempest -- Hurricane Elsa -- formed July 1 and was concisely a hurricane earlier coming ashore successful Florida’s Big Bend a week later. Locally, present successful Jacksonville (far from the center) we had 3-5″ of rainfall and a fig of notable tornadoes.

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