Against all odds, Hurricane Lorenzo became a category five hurricane in the Atlantic on Saturday, again breaking the record for the strongest storm on record so far east in the Atlantic. The storm could threaten the Azores around midweek before moving toward the British Isles by Friday.
. The hurricane, which poses no threat to the United States, will approach the Azores Islands and possibly the British Isles next week as a much weaker storm.
After some brief weakening, and against all odds, Lorenzo’s eyewall became very well organized on Saturday evening and the storm rapidly strengthened into a category five hurricane. The above infrared satellite image shows that classically symmetrical appearance to the hurricane’s core, complete with extremely cold cloud tops in the immediate eyewall. Bitterly cold cloud tops are a sign of intense thunderstorm activity, which is necessary for a hurricane to intensify.
This hurricane would be an impressive sight anywhere on Earth, but especially so for this part of the Atlantic Ocean. Lorenzo is seriously out of place for such a large and intense hurricane. The previous easternmost category five on record,
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