The Azores were the last hours rather rare visitor from the tropics. Hurricane Gordon has in recent days with a stronger westerly flow across the Atlantic moved toward the Azores and was raging there as a Category 1 storm The means winds were recently at a little over 120 km / h, on the southeastern island of Santa Maria has already been recorded gusts to 131 mph. The high speed of the train, the rainfall is not too large. The Azores are not everything in the typical region for tropical cyclones, but in some years, but they are in the trajectory of - usually rapidly weakening - systems. Hurricane Gordon in the Azores, but is certainly not an extreme event, not to mention a connection with global warming altogether. In the coming hours is likely to weaken further and Gordon to an extratropical cyclone be. With high winds and heavy rainfall this system could still plague the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Hurricane Helene is
though soon turn north to northeast and thus pose no further threat to land. Helene is currently a Category 2 hurricane with central winds of 175 km / h.
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