Tropical Storms Fay and Odalys Form, With 45 mph Odalys Seen Reaching Category 1
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Updated · abcnews.com · Sep 20
Tropical Storms Fay and Odalys Form, With 45 mph Odalys Seen Reaching Category 1
3 articles · Updated · abcnews.com · Sep 20
Summary
Two tropical storms formed Sunday in separate basins: Fay in the Atlantic southwest of the Azores and Odalys in the Pacific far southwest of Baja California.
Odalys is the stronger immediate concern meteorologically, carrying 45 mph sustained winds and forecast to gradually strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane by late Monday.
Neither storm is expected to threaten land; Fay is moving northeast at 3 mph more than 400 miles from the Azores, while Odalys is tracking west-northwest at 9 mph over open water.
Fay is the Atlantic season’s sixth named storm, arriving about three weeks later than the typical Aug. 29 timing for a sixth storm and marking the basin’s first named system since Edouard on Aug. 31.
Forecasters are also monitoring two additional tropical disturbances in the central and eastern Pacific, underscoring broader activity in that basin.
How might Tropical Storm Fay's remnants unexpectedly disrupt critical transatlantic shipping routes and travel near the Azores despite avoiding landfall?
With the 2026 hurricane season unusually quiet, what hidden atmospheric anomalies are suppressing major storms while allowing compact systems to form?