Alex Becomes Hurricane

Brian Peters | January 14, 2016 @ 9:07 am

Alex continues to make meteorological news in the Atlantic. And the latest is that Alex has become a hurricane. The Azores Meteorological Service has issued a Hurricane Warning for the islands of Faial, Pico, Sao Jorge, Graciosa, and Terceira in the central Azores, and a Tropical Storm Warning for the islands of Sao Miguel and Santa Maria in the eastern Azores.

As you can see from the visible satellite presentation below, Alex presents very well in this view from space.

The NHC forecast track for Alex remains on a northerly course. Alex should remain a hurricane through Friday morning before transitioning back to a sub tropical storm.

Chalk that up as one hurricane already for the 2016 hurricane season in the Atlantic – and hurricane season does not officially start for another four and a half months!

-Brian-

Category: Tropical

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Brian Peters is one of the television meteorologists at ABC3340 in Birmingham and a retired NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist. He handles the weekend Weather Xtreme Videos and forecast discussion and is the Webmaster for the popular WeatherBrains podcast.