MIAMI – Tropical Storm Epsilon strengthened into a hurricane, the 10th of the Atlantic season.
At 5 a.m. the center of Hurricane Epsilon was located near latitude 30.6 North, longitude 60.9 West.
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Epsilon has been wobbling around since last evening, but its longer-term motion is toward the northwest near 7 mph.
On the forecast track, the center of Epsilon is forecast to make its closest approach to, but well to the east of, Bermuda later this evening.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 110 mph with higher gusts.
Additional weakening is forecast during the next few days.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 310 miles.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 955 mb.
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This year’s hurricane season has had so many storms that the Hurricane Center has turned to the Greek alphabet for storm names after running out of official names.
Epsilon also represents a record for the earliest 26th named storm, beating out a storm on Nov. 22 in 2005, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.