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Tropical Depression Likely To Become A Storm – NEMO Issues Disaster Preparedness Advice

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The Saint Lucia Meteorological Services has announced the formation of Tropical Depression Three over the Central Tropical Atlantic.

As a result, the Met Office has advised interests in the Lesser Antilles to monitor the system’s progress.

Weather experts say the system will likely intensify into Tropical Storm Bret over the next day, approaching or impacting the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane by the weekend.

And the United States-based National Hurricane Center expects it to move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday and Friday, with a risk of flooding from heavy rainfall, hurricane-force winds, and dangerous storm surge and waves.

Maximum sustained winds with higher gusts are near 35 mph or 55 km/h.

Another tropical wave over the eastern Tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 13 mph or 20 km/h, with the possibility of further development over the next few days.

Amid the storm prediction, Saint Lucia’s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) has issued a disaster preparedness best practices advisory.

The advisory appears below:

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