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Subtropical Storm Alex forms in the Eastern Atlantic

By on January 13, 2016
Subtropical Storm Alex (Courtesy Weather Channel)

Subtropical Storm Alex
(Courtesy Weather Channel)

San Ignacio, CAYO. Wednesday, January 13, 2016. TNC: The Hurricane Season usually starts in June, but today the first named storm for 2016 formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

According to the National Hurricane Season, Subtropical Storm Alex became the first named storm in the month of January since 1978.

The rare January-Subtropical Storm Alex was tonight located 785 miles south/southwest of the Azores and was carrying maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour.

Subtropical Storm Alex (Courtesy Weather Channel)

Subtropical Storm Alex
(Courtesy Weather Channel)

Subtropical Storm Alex is not expected to become a hurricane and forecasters say it s expected to move northeast and then north over the eastern Atlantic Ocean in the days ahead.

At this time it poses no threat to any land areas.

Subtropical Storm Alex began back on January 7as a non-tropical low pressure system off the southeast coast of the United States and passed over Bermuda in the days that followed until it gained classification as a named storm today.

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