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Tropical Storm Don to strengthen, organize
Tropical Storm Don continues to swirl out in the Atlantic and is expected to gain strength over the next day or so. FOX 13 Meteorologist Jim Weber says while it may become stronger and better organized, Tropical Storm Don will not make landfall. Weber is also keeping an eye on another area of interest working its way off the coast of Africa that has a 20 percent chance of developing over the next week.
TAMPA, Fla. - Tropical Storm Don, which was upgraded from a subtropical depression on Monday night continues to churn in the Atlantic.
As of Wednesday morning, it was located near latitude 34.0 North, longitude 39.3 West, which is about 740 miles west southwest of the Azores.
Tropical Storm Don is expected to stay over open water.
It had maximum sustained wind speeds of 40 miles per hour and was moving south at about five miles per hour.
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According to the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Don should turn southwest soon before moving west late Wednesday or early Thursday. The storm is then expected to head in a northwest direction on Friday.
Its tropical-storm-force winds extend approximately 60 miles outward from the center and it is not expected to make landfall.
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