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Tropical Depression in Southern Caribbean Could Become Hurricane by Next Week

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   As the remnants of Hurricane Eta disappear in the eastern Atlantic
   Ocean, meteorologists say a tropical depression in the southern
   Caribbean Sea is likely to strengthen into 2020's 30th named storm.

   The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tropical Depression 31 was
   about 500 kilometers south-southeast of Jamaica and was slowly moving
   to the west-southwest. Forecasters said conditions were right for the
   system to gradually intensify into Tropical Storm Iota.

   It was expected to begin moving west-northwest by Saturday and move
   across the central Caribbean. It could approach the coastlines of
   Nicaragua and northeast Honduras by late Sunday, by which time it could
   be a major hurricane.

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