Tropical Storm Eta could strengthen into a hurricane by Monday morning

A 2015 file photo showing a boy on the beach in Rivas, Nicaragua.
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Tropical Storm Eta is expected to become a hurricane early Monday morning, with forecasters saying it will likely make its way to the Nicaraguan coast by early Tuesday.

As of late Sunday night, Eta — the 28th named Atlantic storm of the season — had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph and was 185 miles east of the Nicaragua-Honduras border, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Eta is moving westward at 13 mph.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.