Tropical Storm Andrea drenches Florida's west coast

High winds and soaking rain started to fall on Florida as Tropical Storm Andrea neared the swampy Big Bend on Thursday.The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea was already whipping up gusts as high as 48 mph in St. Petersburg, the National Hurricane Center reported. But forecasters said Andrea won't spend enough time over the Gulf of Mexico to develop into a hurricane before it makes a projected landfall in the crook of the state's west coast.

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