Tropical Storm Zeta’s forecasted path for where it will hit the U.S. A new tropical storm formed in the Caribbean Sunday morning, with forecasters predicting it will move north and hit the storm-weary U.S. Gulf Coast in the middle of the week. Tropical Storm Zeta was located southeast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and had maximum sustained winds of 40 miles an hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters said it would bring heavy rains and strong winds to the northwestern Caribbean Sunday and Monday, then move into the Gulf of Mexico, approaching states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida by Wednesday. Forecasters predicted the storm would reach hurricane force while over the Gulf. A storm is classified a hurricane if it reaches maximum sustained winds of at least 74 miles an hour. Zeta is the 27th named storm of the unusually active 2020 Atlantic storm season . Forecasters […]