Tropical Storm Emily Forms in the Atlantic

Tropical Storm Emily formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, becoming the latest named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

The National Hurricane Center estimates the storm had sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. Tropical disturbances that have sustained winds of 39 m.p.h. earn a name. Once winds reach 74 m.p.h., a storm becomes a hurricane, and at 111 m.p.h. it becomes a major hurricane.

Emily formed about 1,000 miles from the Cabo Verde Islands, which are west of Senegal, and is moving west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. The storm has most likely already reached its peak intensity, forecasters said, and was not expected to have an impact on land.

Emily is the season’s fifth named storm but the sixth tropical cyclone to reach tropical storm strength this year.

The National Hurricane Center announced in May that it had reassessed a storm that formed off the Northeastern United States in mid-January and determined that it was a subtropical storm, making it the Atlantic’s first cyclone of the year.

However, the storm was not retroactively given a name, making Arlene, which formed…