ORLANDO, Fla. — Wanda became a tropical storm overnight and gained a bit more steam as it continued heading north Tuesday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. Meanwhile another system in the Caribbean lingers off the coast of Central America.
First, Wanda gained maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and its tropical-storm-force winds now reach up to 60 miles from its core, the NHC said. The storm is 800 miles west of the Azores and moving at 8 mph.
Wanda formed late Saturday as a subtropical storm, the 21st named storm and exhausted all of the letters in the World Meteorological Organization’s Atlantic hurricane season alphabet. There have been only two other storm seasons to have more than 21 named storms: 2005 and 2020.
