LORENZO HURRICANE: Storm Lorenzo path – UK braces for 65mph winds as dozens of flood alerts issued!!!p19

RIP Azores

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I'm worried!

You have friends there?

yes... and to US fellows just remembering that there are a US base there...

There is a small chance it could hit UK too... it would be the worst storm in at least 30 years.

What/where is/are the Azores? Mountains? Islands? Mountain Islands? Africa?

Tropical Storms Jerry and Lorenzo and Tropical Depression Karen are spinning across the Atlantic Basin and two of the storms have threatened islands.


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Oh no!!

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You rarely see -80C convection around the eye for an Atlantic major hurricane, especially for one outside the Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean. #Lorenzo is getting very close to Category 5 intensity this evening.
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Philip Klotzbach
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#Lorenzo now has max winds of 145 mph - the strongest #hurricane east of 45°W in the Atlantic on record.

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Scary

Oh bugger lol I remember the one 30 years ago!

Which one of the 3 is a possible hit for us then ? or all 3? Xx

Category 4 Lorenzo Setting Records; Karen a Weakening Tropical Depression

Dr. Jeff Masters · September 27, 2019, 11:48 AM EDT


Spectacular Hurricane Lorenzo continues to churn in the Central Atlantic in a region where no hurricane so intense or so large has ever been observed. At 11 am EDT Friday, Lorenzo had weakened slightly to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds; Lorenzo had peaked with 145 mph winds and a central pressure of 937 mb at 5 am EDT Friday at 42.1°W longitude. Both the winds and the pressure at that time were all-time records for a hurricane so far east in the Atlantic. According to NHC, the only comparable hurricane in recent times near Lorenzo’s location was Gabrielle of 1989, which peaked as a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds at 55.7°W.


Lorenzo’s intensity was based solely on satellite estimates, as the hurricane was too far from any airports that the Hurricane Hunters could fly from. That will change Friday afternoon, when two NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft, which left Barbados on Friday morning, will be conducting a research mission into Lorenzo. I’m not familiar with any hurricane hunter missions ever done on a storm so far to the east.

With moderate wind shear (10 – 20 knots) and warm sea-surface temperatures near 27.5 - 28°C (82 - 83°F) expected through Sunday, Lorenzo has the opportunity to maintain major hurricane status into early next week. Satellite images from early Friday afternoon showed a modest degradation of the eyewall thunderstorms compared to early Friday morning, but Lorenzo still presented a formidable spectacle due to its huge size and prominent eye surrounded by intense eyewall thunderstorms with very cold cloud tops.


Models agree that Lorenzo will carry out a classic recurving path over the central and eastern Atlantic as it gradually weakens, reaching the northwestern Azores Islands on Tuesday afternoon or evening. Lorenzo will be a massive wave generator due to its high intensity, longevity, and huge size. Lorenzo’s tropical-storm-force winds extended out 450 miles from northwest to southeast at 11 am EDT Friday. On Thursday afternoon, when Lorenzo’s wind field was not as expansive, an analysis of the Atlantic hurricane database by Eric Webb found that Lorenzo was the largest hurricane ever observed so far east, with a size that ranked in the 85th percentile for all historical Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

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