This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 2:15 PM EDT shows some clouds in the eastern Caribbean Sea associated with a tropical disturbance that has some chance for further development over the next few days. This area will continue to be monitored. (AP Photo/ Weather Underground)
Tropical depression forms in Atlantic (click here)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 2:15 PM EDT shows some clouds in the eastern Caribbean Sea associated with a tropical disturbance that has some chance for further development over the next few days. This area will continue to be monitored. (AP Photo/ Weather Underground)
MIAMI -- The 16th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Saturday, prompting storm warnings in Haiti and a watch in Cuba.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression could bring 6 to 10 inches of rain to Hispaniola and slightly more rain to Jamaica and southeastern Cuba. If the depression becomes a tropical storm it would be named 'Noel.'
A tropical storm warning was in effect for the southwestern peninsula of Haiti from the Haiti-Dominican Republic border westward to Port-au-Prince, meaning tropical storm conditions are expected within the next 24 hours.
The government of Cuba also issued a tropical storm watch for the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo, meaning tropical storm conditions are possible, generally within 36 hours.
At 2 a.m., the storm was located about 185 miles south-southeast of Port-au-Prince, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving west-northwest near 7 mph. Maximum sustained winds were near 35 mph.
The depression was expected to move to the northwest over the next 24 hours, bringing the depression near the southwestern peninsula of Haiti on Sunday.
Forecasters added tropical storm conditions were possible along the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona westward to the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. Rain of between 3 and 5 inches was expected over Puerto Rico during the next 24 hours, forecasters said.
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