Hurricane Lorenzo, the strongest ever storm in Eastern Atlantic history, looks like it's heading for a direct hit next week. Could change, but be very aware if you are in UK or Ireland.

Did Boris draw that on with a Sharpie?

Maybe it'll push the uk into Europe, just to give brexiteers an aneurysm.

Lets go to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for all this to blow over.

Strange. Neither the BBC or the Metoffice forecasts are showing even windy conditions towards the end of this week for my area.

I feel like this is OPs first storm the way he is trying to scaremonger us with his Lorenzo posts.

But as his link shows, this storm will be no where near as strong as a hurricane by the time it reaches the UK.

Oo'er.

I saw this mentioned about 3 days ago. I googled it and all I could find were NOAA and about a million articles from "The Express". The Express being a sensationalist shitrag, so I didn't put too much thought into it but NOAA did have me slightly concerned.

I read that it was a Cat 2 that just changed to 3 (I believe, it was worded funny) and claimed by the time it could reach the UK and France it could be a Cat 5, which was due to make landfall some when "next week" (this was friday I read it)

I watched the weather and saw nothing, no other sites were reporting it, though a local news site for somewhere...Sheffield maybe? stated they had already been hit by one called hurricane humberto, but I don't recall hearing anything about that last week. All in all, there were apparently 3 heading this way, with Lorenzo seeming to be the most aggressive.

So if it is going to hit this week, I wonder why proper news sites haven't been saying anything, also, if it's a category 5, surely there would be evacuations? I know this isn't the US with shitty houses, but from what I read C5's can still tear down well constructed buildings and put power out for months.

I'd love to know what's going on.

Direct hit will be more like a direct fart by the time it reaches us. The Azores on the other hand...

INIT  29/1500Z 25.9N  44.4W  125 KT 145 MPH
 12H  30/0000Z 27.2N  43.9W  115 KT 130 MPH
 24H  30/1200Z 28.9N  43.0W  105 KT 120 MPH
 36H  01/0000Z 31.0N  41.6W  100 KT 115 MPH
 48H  01/1200Z 33.7N  38.9W   95 KT 110 MPH
 72H  02/1200Z 42.0N  29.0W   80 KT  90 MPH
 96H  03/1200Z 50.0N  18.4W   65 KT  75 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP
120H  04/1200Z 54.9N  11.6W   50 KT  60 MPH...POST-TROP/EXTRATROP

Looks like it's rapidly losing power so when it arrives we're looking at strong winds rather than a cat 5 hurricane.

Where's Micheal Fish he's never wrong about hurricanes hitting the UK.

Looks like a very vague prediction, judging by how unpredictable Dorian was I wouldn't place much faith in that path remaining the same next week.

I'm not saying don't be prepared, but we are incredibly sensationalist about our weather here.

If you look at this forecast (press play) it dissipates just before it hits cornwall

Thankfully, most houses in the UK aren't built out of matchsticks, so we'll be fine.

Also, NOAA currently are showing a bit of wind by the time it hits Ireland. Meh.

tropicalstormrisk.com combined with earth.nullschool.net to check up on wind speeds and wave heights is one of my favourite things to do when bored.

TBH a hurricane armaggedon (sp?) is about the most appealing thing I’ve seen in the news lately

Bloody foreign hurricanes coming over here, blowing over our bins! Don't they know Brexit means Brexit?

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Pha ! Tis but a sneeze ! Oh hang on....!

Gotta give the op some credit here as it's now being reported by the met office as a potentially disruptive storm.

Stop trying to distract us from Brexit with this threat to life and limb, it's almost like you want us to worry about having our skulls caved in by flying debris not whether our prosecco and brie supplies will run out after the 31st.

*center, not centre. :)