TS Fred inland over Hispaniola, Invest 95L may develop over the next few days
Late Tuesday night, a tropical wave over the northeastern Caribbean Sea developed into Tropical Storm Fred, the sixth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Fred’s formation ends a lull of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that lasted over a month. Fred’s formation date is still significantly earlier than the average sixth Atlantic named storm, but is over a month later than Tropical Storm Fay’s formation on July 9 last year. As of 5:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Tropical Storm Fred…