Tropical Storm Gonzalo is expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the 2020 season today, forecasters announced Wednesday.

Gonzalo is the earliest “G” storm on record — meaning this is the earliest the seventh named storm — in what has so far been a record-breaking hurricane season. Rising ocean temperatures fueled by global warming leads to more evaporation, which in turn leads to more storms. Gonzalo, currently on the northeast coast of South America, is expected to hit the southern Caribbean this weekend and could possibly reach Texas.

The record-breaking hurricane season and with the recent increase in COVID-19 infections, especially in the Southeast along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, are raising alarms. “If we have continued hospitalizations and we have a hurricane, it’s really going to tax resources here significantly,” Attila Hertelendy, a professor at Florida International University in Miami and a former hospital administrator, told E&E.