By Chris Perkins, Robin Webb and Angie DiMichele
From South Florida Sun Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—South Florida is now under a tropical storm watch as potential Tropical Storm Alex is expected to bring heavy rains and flooding to the state starting Friday evening through Saturday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.
It’s guaranteed to be a wet weekend in South Florida, according to the hurricane center, as the system approaching the state from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico now has a 90 percent chance of developing.
Forecasters anticipate that the system will become a tropical storm by Friday night. If it forms, it will be Tropical Storm Alex—the Atlantic’s first named storm of 2022….