Hurricane Lorenzo was the twelfth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. That puts Lorenzo’s eye about 995 miles (1,600 km) west of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands. Lorenzo is forecast to be the strongest post-tropical cyclone to affect Ireland and the United Kingdom since Ophelia in 2017. Lorenzo was located near latitude 15.2 degrees north and longitude 39.3 degrees west. At its most powerful, Lorenzo was a Category 5 major hurricane. Forecasters are watching two more disturbances near the Caribbean that could become storms. Contents.
The US National Hurricane Centre describes Lorenzo as “a very large cyclone. Lorenzo is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Two of those storms reached Category 5 strength -- Hurricane Dorian last month, and now Lorenzo. Storm path. Sep. 30, 2019 – NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP Analyzes Record-Setting Hurricane Lorenzo Over the weekend of Sept. 28 and 29, Hurricane Lorenzo attained Category 5 strength briefly, becoming the strongest hurricane on record in the eastern-most Atlantic Ocean. It formed in the Bay of Campeche off the east coast of Mexico where it quickly strengthened into a hurricane. Storm history; Preparations; Impact; Other pages; Storm history. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 150 miles (240 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 390 miles (630 km).” Hurricanes of such intensity may seemingly be rare but they appear to be becomin g a more frequent meteorological phenomenon. It made landfall in central Mexico early on September 28 as a Category 1 hurricane.