Tropical Storm Fernand gained a bit of strength Sunday night in the Atlantic Ocean but is not expected to make landfall before dying out next week.
Aug. 24 The season’s sixth named storm, Tropical Storm Fernand, gained a bit of strength Sunday night in the Atlantic Ocean but is not expected to make landfall before dying out next week.
The tropical storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph while located about 320 miles east of Bermuda and moving north-northeast at 13 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 p.m. EDT advisory.
Tropical storm-force winds extend outward about 60 miles from the storm’s eye, the NHC said.
„On the forecast track, Fernand should move across the open waters of the subtropical central Atlantic well east and northeast of Bermuda“, it said.
