Tropical Storm Zeta is expected to reach hurricane strength before making landfall over the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week.

Zeta, the 27th named storm in the Atlantic during the 2020 hurricane season, became more of an organized storm on Sunday night. According to the 10 a.m. Monday update from the National Hurricane Center, the storm has maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. The wind threshold for a storm to become a hurricane is 74 mph.

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