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: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:43PM (3 children)
https://www.wkbn.com/sports/new-castle-football-schedule/1124628701 [wkbn.com]
Alright, I'm over my school pride thing. All the rest of you may stop quaking in fear of the Hurricanes.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Whoever on Saturday October 13 2018, @11:59PM (2 children)
You grew up in a town that can't even spell its own name correctly? That explains a lot!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @01:17AM
Runaway went to school? What is the population of China, again? https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=19772&page=1&cid=517783#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:20PM (2 children)
Sell all your belongings and buy carbon credits... it's for the good of the planet (and Al Gore could use some Christmas shopping funds)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:09AM
OMG HEAD IN SAND!
It will be an interesting day when you finally have to admit it is a problem. Probably when a zombie is eating off your extremities.
(Score: 4, Funny) by chewbacon on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:31AM
Can I mine those with my video card?
(Score: 1) by crahman on Saturday October 13 2018, @11:55PM
With global warming, the hurricane names you!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday October 14 2018, @01:20AM (2 children)
We await the obvious rebuttal. But hurricanes are notoriously hard to refute.
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Sunday October 14 2018, @04:01PM (1 child)
It is amusing watching someone go left with the exact same stupidity they yell about the right using. I'll remind you now of the thing you weren't going to remember until January... Weather != Climate.
I'll just consider this more proof that both sides are religious cults at this point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @08:10PM
Hmm, so in order to refute a hurricane, we just have to throw snowballs at it?
(Score: 2) by mendax on Sunday October 14 2018, @05:27AM (4 children)
Wait until global warming starts sending hurricanes into California. They never get that far north on the Pacific except for some of the dregs on rare occasions. There will be hell to pay on the coasts.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 14 2018, @12:06PM (3 children)
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)
Yep, but tropical rain is not the same as a hurricane.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 15 2018, @06:37PM
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
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.