Hurricane Gonzalo reached Category 4, the most powerful Atlantic storm this year, before it battered Bermuda late yesterday. Gonzalo is now heading northwards and will be a threat to Newfoundland when it sweeps past this weekend. The hurricane will encounter much cooler waters off the northeast coast of Canada, cutting its fuel-supply of warm wet air and killing some of its force.
Gonzalo’s warm humid tropical air will be sucked into westerly winds sweeping across the north Atlantic and will affect Europe and quite possibly the British Isles.
“The most likely outcome is that the storm will decay and move across to the UK as a spell of wet and windy weather, with perhaps gale-force winds in the north and west of the country,” said