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# Tropical Storm Ingrid moves across open Atlantic
# Storm forecast to stay away from land
# Remnants of Humberto dampen parched Southern states
# Disaster relief provided for three Texas counties

Tropical Storm Ingrid chugged across the open Atlantic early Friday while Texas and Louisiana residents cleaned up after Hurricane Humberto.
As of 11 a.m. ET, Ingrid's maximum sustained winds were 45 mph (75 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was about 755 miles (1,210 kilometers) east of the Lesser Antilles, moving to the west-northwest at about 7 mph (11 kph).

The long-range forecast shows Ingrid weakening to a tropical depression late Monday as it gets closer to the Lesser Antilles. Forecasters said that weakening should begin later Friday, noting that the storm's cloud patterns have deteriorated since early Friday morning. "It is possible that Ingrid will not last through five days," an NHC forecast discussion said. Most of the computer forecast models show Ingrid eventually moving in a more northerly direction, which would take it out into the central Atlantic and away from both the United States and the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center. However, tropical systems can be unpredictable, and long-range forecasts can change. Ingrid is the ninth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic season.

What is left of the eighth, Humberto, is bringing welcome rain Friday to parched northern Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. More...

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