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Tracking the tropics: Lorenzo Makes History; Becomes Category 5 Hurricane
We’re tracking hurricane Lorenzo in the tropics.
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LORENZO:
Lorenzo was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane Saturday night. This is the strongest a hurricane as ever been east of 55°W Longitude. While this is a historically strong storm, it poses very little threat to any land areas at this time. The storm will continue to weaken in the next few days. The storm may impact Flores Island (Azores) as a weaker hurricane Wednesday.
Click here to see the animated satellite loop of Lorenzo.
This is a look at some of the latest computer model’s output for Lorenzo’s track
wusa9 weather team