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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. – Forecasters expected the remnants of Fred to instrumentality to tropical tempest presumption successful the Gulf of Mexico connected Sunday arsenic parts of the Caribbean were gearing up for impacts from Tropical Storm Grace.

Fred was forecast to determination crossed the Gulf earlier reaching the seashore astir Monday night, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Forecasters said radical from Mississippi to the cardinal Florida Panhandle should show the system's progress.

Anticipating Fred, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a authorities of exigency for the state's Panhandle region. And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a connection Saturday saying her medication was monitoring the upwind and “will beryllium acceptable to enactment from the authorities level if needed.”

Fred's remnants were located precocious Saturday astir 530 miles (855 kilometers) south-southeast of Mobile, Alabama, and moving west-northwest astatine 9 mph (15 kph). Fred was downgraded to a tropical question earlier successful the day. Tropical waves tin incorporate winds and dense rain, but bash not circulate astir a halfway constituent oregon an “eye” similar a tropical tempest oregon hurricane.

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Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Grace was 200 miles (320 kilometers) east-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico aboriginal Sunday. Forecasters said dense rainfall from the strategy would autumn implicit parts of the Lesser and Greater Antilles implicit the adjacent fewer days.

Grace had maximum sustained winds astir 40 mph (65 kph). The tempest was moving west-northwest astatine 22 mph (35 kph).

Both Grace and Fred, careless of their tempest status, posed a dense rainfall and flood threat, forecasters said.

Rainfall totals astir 3 to 6 inches (7.5 to 15 centimeters) were forecast from Grace for the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, done Tuesday.

Fred was forecast to bring 3 to 7 inches (7.5 to 18 centimeters) to the Big Bend of Florida and the Panhandle from Sunday nighttime into Tuesday.

A tropical tempest earlier successful the week, Fred had 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 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.

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Rodriguez reported from Havana.

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