Tropical depression Fred degenerated into a tropical wave on Saturday after moving away from the path that would bring it closer to the west coast of Florida overnight, but will reorganize on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center reported.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Grace, following in Fred’s footsteps, was approaching the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea.
At 11:00 am this Saturday, Fred’s remnants were 23.3 degrees north latitude and 83.2 degrees west longitude, 80 kilometers west of Havana and 205 kilometers southwest of Key West, Florida.
The system had maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour and was moving at a translation speed of 19 kilometers per hour heading west northwest.
The direct threat that Fred posed to the Florida Keys and parts of the southern peninsula dissipated as the system drifted away, and meteorologists suspended all tropical storm warnings for the area.
However, rain accumulations of 5 to 12 centimeters are still expected in portions of Cuba, 3 to 8 centimeters in the Bahamas and 8 to 12 centimeters in the Florida Keys.
The hurricane center added that Fred will revert to a tropical depression on Sunday and reinforce into a tropical storm on its way north across the Gulf of Mexico to parts of northern Florida or Alabama, where it could make landfall Monday for the night.
Tropical Storm Grace, meanwhile, was 425 kilometers east of the Windward and Leeward Islands this Saturday, with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour and a translation speed to the west of 37 kilometers per hour.
Forecasters predicted Grace could hit Puerto Rico Sunday night and the Dominican Republic Monday morning.
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