Fred May Regain Tropical Storm Strength as It Nears Florida

Fred May Regain Tropical Storm Strength as It Nears Florida
Palm trees sway in the wind during the passage of Tropical Storm Fred in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Aug. 11, 2021. Ricardo Rojas/Reuters
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HAVANA—Tropical depression Fred was moving along Cuba’s northern coast and could regain tropical storm status as it pulls away from the island on Friday, ahead of its projected track towards the Florida Keys on Saturday and southwest Florida on Sunday, forecasters said.

Meanwhile, still east of the Caribbean Sea, forecasters were watching a tropical depression that they said would likely become Grace, the seventh named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Montserrat, Saba and Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and St. Martin and St. Barthelemy. A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.