There were two storm in the month of January but they formed in December , they were : Hurricane Alice in 1954 and Tropical Storm Zeta in 2005 . In 1954 , Hurricane Alice developed in the same region as the subtropical storm , which moved through the Lesser Antilles in early January 1955 as a minimal hurricane . The other storm was Tropical Storm Zeta , which lasted from December 2005 to January 2006 over the open Atlantic Ocean .