Season’s Eighth Tropical Storm Forms in Atlantic
From Times Wire Reports
The eighth tropical storm of the season, named Humberto, formed over the Atlantic and could become a hurricane in a day or so, forecasters said.
Humberto is expected to stay at least 200 miles off the East Coast and poses no threat to land for now, said Krissy Williams, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Humberto was 265 miles south-southwest of Bermuda.
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