Hurricane season doesn’t start until June, but a rare April tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic. A weather system morphed into Tropical Storm Arlene on Thursday, becoming the first named storm of the year, the National Hurricane Center said. As of Friday morning, Arlene had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was moving northwest at 28 mph.
The storm is far from land, about 815 miles west of the Azores. “We are watching what is now Tropical Storm Arlene, which is about 2,000 miles away from Florida and moving away every hour,” News 6 meteorologist Troy Bridges said. The system is expected to dissipate Friday or Saturday and no coastal watches or warnings are in effect. READ MORE
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