Two flights from Raleigh-Durham International Airport have been cancelled due to a tropical storm in Florida, officials said Tuesday.

According to Mindy Hamlin, RDU spokeswoman, two flights from RDU to Orlano have been cancelled, but the weather isn't causing any other problems.

Tropical Storm Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida. It did not become the hurricane that forecasters had predicited.

At 11 a.m., the center of the Atlantic hurricane season's sixth named storm was about 30 miles east of Fort Myers and was moving north-northeast near 9 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph expected to gradually weaken through the day. It could strengthen slightly once it crosses Florida to the Atlantic and gets over water again.

The storm is no longer expected to provide drought relief to North Carolina, though forecasters say rain could still fall next week.

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