Hurricane Lorzeno batters mid-Atlantic Azores Islands
Hurricane Lorenzo to hit stronger than expected' as storm hurtles towards Britain.
Hurricane Lorenzo to hit stronger than expected' as storm hurtles towards Britain.
- published: 02 Oct 2019
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Residents on Portugal\'s Azores islands are hunkering down as a deadly hurricane passes through, bringing expected life-threatening water currents and winds of up to 100mph. Local authorities have closed roads, schools and non-emergency public services in preparation for the Category 2 hurricane, which is expected to hit the archipelago as a downgraded Category 1. It may also cause waves of up to 25 metres, according to Portugal\'s metereological service. \"The situation will worsen in the next few hours,\" regional government president Vasco Cordeiro told Portuguese broadcaster SIC. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Centre in the US said \"dangerous conditions\" would continue into Wednesday afternoon, adding that hurricane and tropical storm warnings were in place across the region. Hurricane Lorenzo is set to weaken to an extratropical storm after hitting Azores, before it moves north on its trajectory toward Ireland and the UK at the end of the week. Dan Suri, the chief meteorologist at the UK\'s Met Office, said \"wet and very windy weather\" would hit western parts of the UK from Thursday after bringing \"the strongest winds\" to western Ireland. It comes \"with a risk of coastal gales developing in Northern Ireland and western Scotland on Thursday and Wales and south-west England on Friday,\" he added. The hurricane broke records over the weekend after being elevated to a Category 5 storm, which the National Hurricane Center in the US says is the strongest for that far north and east in the Atlantic Ocean. Despite being downgraded to a Category 2, it has still made deadl...
Hurricane Lorenzo to hit stronger than expected' as storm hurtles towards Britain.
- published: 02 Oct 2019
- views: 129
Residents on Portugal\'s Azores islands are hunkering down as a deadly hurricane passes through, bringing expected life-threatening water currents and winds of up to 100mph. Local authorities have closed roads, schools and non-emergency public services in preparation for the Category 2 hurricane, which is expected to hit the archipelago as a downgraded Category 1. It may also cause waves of up to 25 metres, according to Portugal\'s metereological service. \"The situation will worsen in the next few hours,\" regional government president Vasco Cordeiro told Portuguese broadcaster SIC. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Centre in the US said \"dangerous conditions\" would continue into Wednesday afternoon, adding that hurricane and tropical storm warnings were in place across the region. Hurricane Lorenzo is set to weaken to an extratropical storm after hitting Azores, before it moves north on its trajectory toward Ireland and the UK at the end of the week. Dan Suri, the chief meteorologist at the UK\'s Met Office, said \"wet and very windy weather\" would hit western parts of the UK from Thursday after bringing \"the strongest winds\" to western Ireland. It comes \"with a risk of coastal gales developing in Northern Ireland and western Scotland on Thursday and Wales and south-west England on Friday,\" he added. The hurricane broke records over the weekend after being elevated to a Category 5 storm, which the National Hurricane Center in the US says is the strongest for that far north and east in the Atlantic Ocean. Despite being downgraded to a Category 2, it has still made deadl...
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