Tropical Storm Wanda is expected to get stronger over the weekend

 

Tropical Storm Wanda is expected to get stronger over the weekend

Tropical Storm Wanda is always present in the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. update.

The NHC said that Wanda's maximum sustained winds were measured at 45 miles per hour, and tropical-storm-force winds reached up to 70 miles from its core. 

Wanda formed as a subtropical storm over this weekend, the twenty-first named storm, and has exhausted all letters in the alphabet of the WMO Atlantic hurricane season. There have only been two more storm seasons with more than 21 named storms: 2005 and 2020.

In previous years, hurricanes and tropical storms that occurred later in the season took on Greek alphabetical names such as Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Meteorologists have switched to a non-Greek alphabet to avoid confusion with similar terms such as beta and theta.

Wanda became a tropical storm on Tuesday and could make it to the shores of Ireland next Tuesday, according to NHC models. Will not affect the U.S.