Tropical Storm Franklin is churning through the Caribbean Sea as authorities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic warn residents to prepare for floods and landslides
The storm was located some 240 miles south of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic and had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph . It was moving west at 6 mph and was forecast to make a sharp turn north late Monday or early Tuesday.
“The mudlslide risk there is just awful,” said Phil Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, noting that a slow-moving storm poses great danger in Haiti given that it's so stripped of trees. Franklin formed on Sunday and was dropping heavy rain over parts of Puerto Rico on Monday, Meanwhile, Gert formed overnight to become the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It formed some three weeks early compared with the dates of the eighth named storms from 1991 to 2020, said Brian McNoldy, senior research associated at University of Miami.
The Atlantic is smaller than the Pacific and can only accommodate so many storms, he said, adding that Franklin is shearing apart Gert.Meanwhile, a fourth system in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to soon become a tropical storm, as was a system off the coast of western Africa.
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