An active October in the tropics is continuing with another named storm, this time deep in the North Atlantic. Subtropical Storm Rebekah is closer to Europe than the United States, a few hundred miles west of the Azores Islands. 

What has become Rebekah has been out there for a while, but not as a tropical system. What's changed on Wednesday are some thunderstorms are forming up close to a center of low pressure inside the larger storm. When we look at storms on satellite that's a key that a system is trying to become tropical. Since this storm isn't all the way there, it's named as a subtropical storm. 

Rebekah is in a part of the world where it won't get a chance to impact us. The track for the storm will swing it around the Azores over the next few days before dissipating. By then it's unlikely however to still be a tropical or subtropical storm as it moves over colder waters. Either way, some of the Azores islands will see gusty winds and just generally lousy weather as Rebekah moves on by. 

Rebekah's naming means that over the past decade, half of those years had 17 or more named storms (2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2019).  An average season over the past 30 years has been considered to be around 12 named storms. There are only four names left on this year's list with a month left in the season; Sebastien, Tanya, Van, and Wendy. 