GREENSBORO, N.C. — The 2020 hurricane season is sure cranking out the storms already. Fay, the sixth storm of the year, became a tropical storm off the coast of the Outer Banks Thursday afternoon.
There is the latest advisory on Tropical Storm Fay.
The storm is heading northward and will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to New Jersey and New York City today and tonight.
The pace of this hurricane season is record-setting. This is the earliest in a year that a sixth tropical system has formed. However, all of the storms this year have stayed rather weak up until this point. No hurricanes have formed yet in 2020 in the Atlantic basin.
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