The warmest October in recent years has given way to a November marked by cold and strong gusts of wind.
Some meteorologists warned this week that the weather conditions could bring a tropical storm that, if the right circumstances were met, could become a hurricane.
This was stated by J. J. González Alemán, from the Spanish Meteorological Agency, on the social network X -formerly Twitter-.
“This is outrageous. Early November and the atmospheric/oceanic environment in the Northeast Atlantic would be able to withstand (theoretically) a hurricane of up to category 3 or 4! A very clear expansion of tropical conditions towards our regions,” the expert tweeted some days ago.
But do not spread panic. As he himself clarifies in the aforementioned thread, “this does not mean that a category 4 hurricane will form in the area. It means that, if a tropical cyclone forms, it could reach that category if the conditions are favorable (for example : low shear, humid environment) to take advantage of that energy”.
In the same publication he illustrates this situation with a map, which González Alemán explains in another tweet. “What this map tells us is the Maximum Potential Intensity, a magnitude that measures the maximum energy that a tropical cyclone could obtain from the atmosphere and the ocean. That is, the maximum intensity that a tropical cyclone could reach if it developed in area.
