Hurricane
By Matthew Cappucci
Hurricane Lorenzo is set to lash the Azores on Wednesday morning, with the very large storm potentially bringing gusts of up to 90 mph, several inches of rain, dangerous surf and 40-foot waves just offshore.
From there, the hurricane will continue north, becoming a powerful subtropical or mid-latitude cyclone before affecting Ireland and the United Kingdom on Friday and into the weekend. In between, wave heights over the open ocean will approach 80 to 100 feet. It’s all part of Lorenzo’s final performance after having shattered intensity records as an errant top-tier storm unusually far east.
Tuesday 1 Oct 2019 1:35 pm
The UK is braced to be hit by Hurricane Lorenzo with the tail end of the storm expected to reach the country on Thursday.
Hurricane Lorenzo – the most powerful storm to make it so far east in the Atlantic – strengthened to a Category Five over the weekend, however it has weakened to a Category Two.
Here’s how the hurricane got its name, and the other names which can be used in 2019.
Why and how are hurricanes named?
Meteorologists have been naming hurricanes since the 1950s to help quickly identify each storm while tracking them and issuing weather warnings.
At first, they were given arbitrary names however a more efficient system was later adopted whereby storms were identified from a list of alphabetical names.
Hurricane Lorenzo is set to lash the Azores on Wednesday morning, with the very large storm potentially bringing gusts of up to 90 mph, several inches of rain, dangerous surf and 40-foot waves just offshore.
From there, the hurricane will continue north, becoming a powerful subtropical or mid-latitude cyclone before affecting Ireland and the United Kingdom on Friday and into the weekend. In between, wave heights over the open ocean will approach 80 to 100 feet. It’s all part of Lorenzo’s final performance after having shattered intensity records as an errant top-tier storm unusually far east.
Tuesday 1 Oct 2019 1:35 pm
The UK is braced to be hit by Hurricane Lorenzo with the tail end of the storm expected to reach the country on Thursday.
Hurricane Lorenzo – the most powerful storm to make it so far east in the Atlantic – strengthened to a Category Five over the weekend, however it has weakened to a Category Two.
Here’s how the hurricane got its name, and the other names which can be used in 2019.
Why and how are hurricanes named?
Meteorologists have been naming hurricanes since the 1950s to help quickly identify each storm while tracking them and issuing weather warnings.
At first, they were given arbitrary names however a more efficient system was later adopted whereby storms were identified from a list of alphabetical names.
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