This outer representation provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a Tropical Storm Fred successful the Caribbean arsenic it passes southbound of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic astatine 8am EST, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES via AP)

This outer representation provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a Tropical Storm Fred successful the Caribbean arsenic it passes southbound of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic astatine 8am EST, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES via AP)

SAN JUAN – Tropical Depression Fred headed for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas connected Thursday connected a forecast way that would transportation it toward southbound Florida arsenic a tropical tempest by Saturday.

The main menace to the U.S. appeared to beryllium dense rains affecting Florida and parts of the Southeast starting connected Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

It said 3 to 5 inches (7.5 to 12.5 centimeters) of rainfall were expected crossed the Florida Keys and confederate peninsula by Monday, with isolated maximums of 8 inches (20 centimeters).

Already a tropical storm, it was weakened backmost to slump unit by its rotation implicit Haiti and the Dominican Republic, wherever it knocked retired powerfulness to immoderate 400,000 customers and caused flooding that forced officials to unopen down portion of the country's aqueduct system, interrupting h2o work for hundreds of thousands of people.

Local officials reported hundreds of radical were evacuated and immoderate buildings were damaged. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.

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Heavy rains continued to lb Hispaniola, which the 2 nations share, connected Thursday.

The Hurricane Center said the tempest had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) Thursday greeting portion centered conscionable northbound of Cuba's eastbound tip.

It was astir 105 miles (170 kilometers) westbound of Great Inagua Island successful the southernmost Bahamas and 180 miles (290 kilometers) eastbound of Camaguey, Cuba.

It was heading west-northwest astatine 14 mph (22 kph).

Fred was expected to nutrient 3 to 5 inches (7.5 to 12.5 centimeters) o rainfall crossed the Dominican Republic and the occidental Bahamas, arsenic good arsenic 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 centimeters) implicit Haiti, the Turks and Caicos, the eastbound Bahamas, and Cuba.

Fred became the sixth named tempest of the Atlantic hurricane play precocious Tuesday arsenic it moved past the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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