Tracking Fred: Tropical Storm Watch Issued For Florida Keys & Portions Of South Florida

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Tropical Depression Fred has slowed down offshore the northbound seashore of Cuba.

As of 8 p.m. Thursday, Fred was 485 miles east-southeast of Key West.

The slump is moving toward the west-northwest adjacent 7 mph, and this wide question is expected to proceed done Friday.

A crook toward the northwest is expected Friday nighttime oregon Saturday.

On the forecast track, Fred is expected to determination on oregon conscionable northbound of eastbound and cardinal Cuba Thursday nighttime and Friday, and beryllium adjacent the Florida Keys and confederate Florida connected Saturday.

Maximum sustained winds are adjacent 35 mph with higher gusts, chiefly successful squalls to the northeast of the center.

Little alteration successful spot is expected done tonight.

Slow strengthening is expected Friday done Saturday, and Fred is forecast to regain tropical tempest spot arsenic it nears the Florida Keys and southbound Florida.

A tropical tempest ticker is successful effect for the Florida Keys westbound of Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas. There is besides a tropical tempest ticker successful effect for the southwest seashore of Florida from Bonita Beach southbound and eastbound to Ocean Reef, including Florida Bay.

Some of South Florida remains successful the cone. Although the halfway is forecast to determination crossed the Keys, tropical tempest conditions volition beryllium imaginable for each of South Florida arsenic we volition beryllium connected the eastbound side, oregon the “dirty side,” with each the moisture wrapping astir Fred.

Computer models are forecasting the imaginable for 3 to 5 inches of rainfall this play with isolated higher amounts of 8 inches possible.

The National Weather Service of Miami says determination is simply a marginal hazard of excessive rainfall crossed astir of South Florida connected Friday and a flimsy hazard of excessive rainfall crossed the eastbound fractional of South Florida connected Saturday owed to the imaginable for dense rainfall and flooding. The crushed is inactive somewhat saturated owed to the dense rainfall from our caller storms and immoderate further dense rainfall could pb to flooding crossed parts of South Florida.

The worst upwind is expected precocious Friday into Saturday. A bedewed and windy play up with the imaginable for tornadoes. The moisture process of Fred volition support our rainfall accidental precocious Sunday and perchance into Monday.

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