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City workers load 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)

HAVANA – Two tropical depressions successful the Atlantic basin could perchance intensify into tropical storms connected Saturday, expected to bring dense rainfall and flooding to parts of the Caribbean and Florida, forecasters said.

Tropical slump Fred, which has already been classified arsenic a tropical tempest before, could regain specified spot arsenic it slides towards the Florida Keys, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. It was centered aboriginal Saturday 130 miles (205 kilometers) south-southeast of Key West.

Another tropical slump 480 miles (770 kilometers) eastbound of the Leeward Islands was forecast to go a tropical tempest named Grace. Tropical slump 7 was moving westbound astatine 21 mph (33 kph).

Both systems had maximum sustained winds astir 35 mph (55 kph).

Fred had been dropping dense rainfall implicit parts of Cuba since astatine slightest Thursday. Forecasters expected it to walk adjacent oregon westbound of the Florida Keys connected Saturday afternoon, and past determination implicit the eastbound Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane halfway described Fred arsenic “disorganized,” and said it was traveling westbound astatine 12 mph (19 kph). A tropical tempest informing was successful effect for the Florida Keys westbound of the Seven Mile Bridge to the Dry Tortugas.

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Once a tropical storm, Fred weakened to a slump 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.

Fred was expected to bring 3 to 5 inches (7.5 to 12.5 centimeters) of rainfall to the Keys and confederate Florida done Monday.

No evacuations are planned for tourists oregon residents successful Monroe County, Keys officials said Friday. The county’s exigency absorption officials are advising radical successful campgrounds, recreational vehicles, question trailers, live-aboard vessels and mobile homes to question structure successful a harmless operation during the upwind event.

Tropical slump 7 was forecast to bring 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 centimeters) of rainfall to the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico into Monday. A tropical tempest informing was successful effect for respective islands including Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy.

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