TROPICAL STORM GRACE STRENGTHES OVERNIGHT AS IT HEADS WESTWARD

The season's 7th tropical storm formed late yesterday. Tropical Storm Grace is well east in the tropical atlantic and has become better organized overnight with a well defined circulation and top winsd are now at 45 mph though the National Hurricane Center says this may be conservative. Conditions over the next 2 days remain favorable for strengtheing and it is possible that Grace could reach hurriane strength during this period. To the northwest of Grace is Tropical Depression Fred which has flared up again overnight and Fred might become a tropical storm again as it meanders over the ocean.......

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