Rene has strengthened again into a tropical storm near the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday.
Rene is located about 510 miles (815 km) west north-west of the Cape Verde Islands, packing maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour (65 km/h).
(Reporting by Diptendu Lahiri and Nakul Iyer in Bengaluru, Editing by Franklin Paul)