It’s the 10th hurricane that has developed in the Atlantic this season.
Hurricane Ophelia on Thursday morning (Oct. 12) was slowly moving through the Atlantic Ocean toward the Azores and Ireland. The storm is the 10th hurricane that has developed in the Atlantic this season.
No watches or warnings have been issued for the Category 1 storm. ( See the latest path)
As of 4 a.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said Ophelia was 725 miles southwest of the Azores and moving northeast at 3 mph. It had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and some slight strengthening is possible in the next day or two, forecasters said.
However, by the time it reaches Ireland, northern Ireland and Great Britain, forecasters say the storm is expected to have lost its “tropical” characteristics and is expected to become a “powerful,” hurricane-force extratropical low.
Hurricane-force winds currently extend out 25 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend out 70 miles.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 986 mb.
Read the full advisory.
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Carlie Kollath Wells is a morning reporter at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. Have an early-bird tip? Send it to her: cwells@nola.com or Twitter @carlie_kollath .
