Tropical depression Grace approaches Caribbean as system with storm potential forms off Bermuda

Tropical depression Grace approaches Caribbean as system with storm potential forms off Bermuda

Grace continues to move towards the Lesser Antilles as a tropical depression with forecasts indicating it will be downgraded further as it passes the Caribbean on Friday.
At 5 a.m., the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said Grace was about 945 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, with maximum sustained winds near 30 miles per hour, and was moving towards the west at 17 miles per hour.

“This general motion is expected to continue during the next 48 hours . . . Grace is expected to become a remnant low or an open wave in the next day or two,” the NHC said.
However, locally heavy rain is possible in the Lesser Antilles Friday.
Meantime, forecasters say there is another system off Bermuda that could become the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season’s eighth named storm, Henri.
The tropical depression is located about 220 miles east southeast of Bermuda and is carrying maximum sustained winds of about 35 miles per hour.

At 5 a.m., it was stationary, the NHC said, but it is expected to begin moving northward later today.
“Slow strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, the depression could become a tropical storm later today,” the Miami-based centre said.
That system, which may become Tropical Storm Henri, poses no threat to the Caribbean.
Forecasters say it will head towards the North Atlantic and out to sea and merge with a frontal system by Friday morning.