Hurricane Gabrielle advances through the central Atlantic at 16 kilometers per hour, feeding on warm waters, growing little by little, gaining speed. But none of that is especially important on this side of the ocean.
It only matters one thing: that it is turning right in our direction.
A changing scenario. Yesterday, the 50 most likely scenarios made it clear that the hurricane He was going to approach “To our region, with high probabilities of suffering an extroatropical transition (transformation on storm) of high intensity.” That is, a meteorologically very complicated event right off the coast of the Peninsula.
In fact, like The meteorologist González Alemán pointed outThere were “scenarios where it would not suffer an extroatropical transition, but would approach without losing its tropical cyclone.” We had to pay attention to the Atlantic.


Today those scenarios are converging progressively and everything seems to indicate that the worst part will take the Azores. And, with “worse part” I am not being metaphorical. “Some of the possible scenarios carry pressure centers even below 970 HPA”; that is to say, A very deep storm (and wild).
The problem is that there are still six days left.
And that, indeed, is a lot. To get an idea, according to the National Hurricane Center, it is most likely that Gabrielle loses his hurricane category between 12 and 24 hours before reaching the Portuguese archipelago.
We already knew that Spain, like reminds us in Meteovigoit is difficult for him to llgue with the intensity of a hurricane because there are several “shields” that protect us (essentially deep water and polar jet). However, that does not mean that the impact of a storm of this type cannot be very intense.
How of “intense”? That will be the question that we have alert for the rest of the week. If we have to listen to the current trend, it does not seem that the Peninsula will receive a direct impact. However, as I said, everything is very open.
And in a season like this that is to say a lot. Because, although experts anticipated that the season was going to be relatively active, the truth is that the Atlantic Hurricanes factory has been surprisingly calm. Is there yet time to change this? Without a doubt, but there is less time left.
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