(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Sam has formed in the Atlantic, becoming the 18th named storm of the 2021 season, and is forecast to strengthen further into a hurricane in a day, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday.
The system, located about 1,745 miles (2,800 km) east south-east of the Northern Leeward Islands, is packing maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (85 km per hour).
(Reporting by Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru)
