He first headed north towards the UK, passing through the Azores. Yesterday it ‘turned’ towards the northeast, and began to head towards the Bay of Biscay, already pointing to Galicia and the upper part of the Iberian Peninsula and affecting the archipelago on Friday and Saturday. It has now made its complete pirouette to the southeast, putting Portugal truly in the ‘eye of the hurricane’.
Yes, we are talking about Danielle, the first North Atlantic hurricane, whose trajectory has always been very uncertain and confusing for meteorologists, but which this Wednesday aimed directly at our country. If current forecasts hold, it will hit us hard, Sunday or Monday. However, it will only be an extratropical storm today or tomorrow, when it loses hurricane status, and probably just a strong fall storm when it gets here. Still, its weather effects include rain and strong winds. In addition to the waves above normal.
#danielle it will lose its tropical characteristics, becoming a deep storm in mid-latitudes. It will approach the Peninsula during the week, with no more adversity than any autumn storm, with strong winds and rains in the west and central areas. pic.twitter.com/UcWIzsdnbj
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp) September 7, 2022
the hurricane #danielle Of recent formation in the Atlantic near the peninsula, it will hit our country (possibly as an extratropical storm) in the next week. pic.twitter.com/lFLwIJ3tmM
— Objective storm (David Mancebo) (@objtormentas) September 7, 2022
???? The remains of the hurricane #danielletransformed into a tropical cyclone, will reach #Galicia like “a deep autumn storm” on Sunday afternoon
???? All the information ⬇️https://t.co/jl0e37ziGB– Cope Santiago (@copesantiago) September 7, 2022
After passing from a hurricane with winds of the order of 130 km/h, current situation, to an extratropical cyclone, in which the winds can be reduced to 60/70 km/h when entering colder waters, the storm must merge with a low pressure system as it approaches the Iberian Peninsula. This low pressure system will then become a strong storm (with the ‘remains’ of Danielle integrated) and not an extratropical cyclone, and will cause rains in almost the entire country. The rain and the wind, of the order of 40/50 km/h, will continue to be stronger and more persistent in the north and center. The rain can start on Sunday and last until Tuesday or Wednesday.
That is, if Danielle doesn’t decide to go for another ride somewhere else.
Source: Observadora
