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posted by chromas on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-blow-to-a-lot-of-people dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 14 2018, @12:06PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday October 14 2018, @12:06PM (#748570)

    Didn't they get tropical origin rain this year in the SouthWest?

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Monday October 15 2018, @02:35AM (1 child)

    by mendax (2840) on Monday October 15 2018, @02:35AM (#748787)

    Yep, but tropical rain is not the same as a hurricane.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 15 2018, @06:37PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday October 15 2018, @06:37PM (#749172)

      To hear the desert dwellers tell it, 2" of rain all within 24 hours is tantamount to a Biblical flood.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Monday October 15 2018, @05:03AM

    by dry (223) on Monday October 15 2018, @05:03AM (#748835) Journal

    Up here on the west coast of Canada, tropical rain is a regular occurrence in winter, called the pineapple express, usually straight from Hawaii, nice warm rain. Get hit by the odd tropical cyclone too, though they're usually pretty spent by the time they get here. There was also hurricane Frieda back in '62 or so.
    The bad storms, the ones with hurricane force winds, usually come from the Gulf of Alaska.