Tropical Depression No. 28 became Tropical Storm Zeta early Sunday morning, as predicted, making the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season the fastest to get to 27 named storms.
According to the National Hurricane Center’s 8AM on Sunday, October 25, 2020 update, Pinar del Rio, Cuba is under a Tropical Storm Warning and, in Mexico, Cozumel and Tulum to Rio Lagartos are under Hurricane Warning.
Early week rains in South Florida, including the Keys, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, parts of central and western Cuba area ‘might lead to flash flooding in urban areas’.
As of the 8AM update, Zeta has taken a seat about 290 miles south southeast of Cuba’s western finger and 270 miles southeast of Cozumel. Zeta has 40 mph maximum winds, but is forecast to be a hurricane by late Monday or early Tuesday.
