The U.S. National Hurricane Center announced that Tropical Depression Seven formed over the Central Caribbean Sea. The low pressure system had winds up to 35mph, just a few miles per hour short of becoming Tropical Storm Gustav. The system formed somewhere bout 260 miles southeast of Port au Prince, Haiti.

The seventh tropical depression of this Atlantic hurricane season was moving at around 15 mph towards the Dominican Republic and Haiti, both of which have issued tropical storm warnings for the southern and western parts of the island, which is shared by the two countries.

Meanwhile, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Tropical Depression Fay remained mostly stationary in southern Mississippi. Fay weakened to tropical depression Saturday night. The tropical storm, which never reached hurricane strength, was downgraded to a tropical depression while traveling inland with maximum sustained winds of about 35 miles per hour.