Hurricane Leslie is set to hit Spain and Portugal this Saturday and Sunday. A hurricane hitting land in this location is very unusual.
The previous hurricane to do so was hurricane Vince in 2005. Before that, only one other hurricane is known to have made landfall in the region, in 1842.
Vince was a very unusual hurricane as it developed far away from where tropical cyclones usually develop, at water temperatures considered too low to cause a tropical cyclone, the precursor for a hurricane.
Leslie too is a bit unusual -- first registered on September 23, it has spent three weeks being bumped around by weather systems passing over the North Atlantic. There's still a chance it turns southern after landfall, and might make a run for the record of longest-lived tropical cyclone on record.
Before hitting Spain and Portugal, Leslie will hit Madeira. There are no historical records for such an event happening, since 1420.
About 1M without power after Hurricane Michael shreds electric grids; towns flattened
About a million people remained in the dark Friday morning after Hurricane Michael left a trail of destruction that claimed at least six lives, flattened entire towns and "shattered" electrical grids.
The scenes were familiar across communities in Florida and Georgia: uprooted trees cracked like toothpicks, buildings with roofs peeled off, homes flattened into an unrecognizable landscape.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @03:54AM
We corrected the spelling. Unfortunately, we didn't build a new castle up on the hill, or down by the river. All we ever got was a big stupid Mason cathedral.