Subtropical Storm Theta Breaks 2005 Record As 29th Named Storm Of The 2020 Hurricane Season
Subtropical Storm Theta became the 29th named storm of the tumultuous 2020 hurricane season on Monday night, breaking a record set in 2005. Government scientists had predicted an unusually busy hurricane season this year. But the number of named storms exceeded even the initial forecasts issued by the National Hurricane Center, and forced the National Weather Service to resort to using the Greek alphabet after Tropical Storm Wilfred formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean in September.
The Weather Service had not done that since 2005, when 28 storms grew strong enough to have names. (The National Hurricane Center named 27 storms that year and later identified a 28th qualifying storm: a subtropical storm that formed briefly in October 2005 near the Azores, a remote archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.)
Theta was about 995 miles southwest of the Azores in the Northeast Atlantic on Monday night and producing maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm was moving easterly at about 15 m.p.h. There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect. Subtropical storms share some characteristics with tropical storms, but, according to the Hurricane Center, “are generally cold-core in the upper troposphere, often being associated with an upper-level low or trough.” Their maximum winds are usually recorded more than 60 nautical miles from the storm’s center.
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