MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Dean was losing steam early Tuesday, heading away from Newfoundland and toward the Grand Banks in its second dissolution, forecasters said.

Dean, which was reborn Monday days after it was downgraded in the Caribbean to a tropical depression, had been forecast to pass over or just south of Newfoundland.

But Dean was no longer a concern to any land, according to Jack Beven, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

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"It's going to pass south of Newfoundland during the day today, and it'll begin weakening and losing its tropical characteristics as it moves along," Beven said before dawn Tuesday. "There is very little chance of it affecting land as a tropical cyclone."

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