Tropical Storm Fred Path, Update as Storm Hurtles Towards Florida

BY JAMES CRUMP ON 8/11/21 AT 11:58 AM EDT

Tropical Storm Fred formed on Tuesday night off the coast of Puerto Rico, with the extreme weather expected to reach the U.S. later in the week and make landfall over the Florida Keys.

In a release at around 8:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) confirmed that the storm had been recorded with wind speeds of up to 40 mph about 50 miles from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean.

The center said it had put a Tropical Storm Warning in place for the northern border of Haiti with the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and for the Southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday.

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