NU Online News Service, July 18, 11:11 a.m. EST

Both the U.S. and Japan face strengthening tropical storms, but while modelers predict the U.S. will escape a land-falling event, Japan may not be as lucky.

In the U.S., Tropical Storm Bret formed on Sunday, July 18, first as a tropical depression off the east coast of Florida, then strengthening shortly after to become the second named storm of the Atlantic storm season.

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