Robin Webb - Sun Sentinel

Orange cones lined the sand, marking off a section of beach closed for several hours Sunday morning after a deputy on patrol found that a “possible explosive training device” had washed ashore, the sheriff’s office said.

Hurricane Iota, the season’s 13th hurricane, is gaining strength and has the potential to become a devastating Category 5 hurricane ahead of its forecasted landfall in northeastern Central America, the National Hurricane Center said.

A tropical wave that formed in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles west of the African coast has a 60% chance of becoming at least a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said.