Hurricane Gabrielle Headed Toward Strike In The Azores Tonight With Winds, Storm Surge, Flooding Rain Hayden Marshall, Sara Tonks September 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM 1 Hurricane Gabrielle will blast through the Azores before reaching Portugal as a nontropical system, following its weeklong journey.
- - Hurricane Gabrielle Headed Toward Strike In The Azores Tonight With Winds, Storm Surge, Flooding Rain
Hayden Marshall, Sara Tonks September 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Hurricane Gabrielle will blast through the Azores before reaching Portugal as a non-tropical system, following its week-long journey.
Gabrielle is moving rapidly toward the Azores — a group of nine volcanic islands about 740 miles west of Portugal — where hurricane warnings are in effect.
Current Status And Projected Path
While Gabrielle is now over colder water and facing higher wind shear, it's still expected to generate at least a band of hurricane-force winds through the islands late Thursday night into early Friday.
Other impacts expected in the islands include storm surge flooding in areas where the winds blow onshore, as well as locally flooding rain, especially along the slopes of the islands' mountains.
This will be the first hurricane the islands have faced in six years, since Lorenzo in 2019.
After the Azores, Gabrielle will be a weakening, post-tropical low as it approaches the Portuguese coast Sunday, bringing areas of locally heavy rain and gusty winds to parts of Portugal and Spain and dangerous high surf to coastal areas.
Gabrielle's History
Gabrielle became the first active Atlantic tropical storm in 20 days, since Fernand was designated a post-tropical cyclone on August 28.
Gabrielle became the second hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season late Sunday afternoon.
After a long battle with stronger wind shear and dry air last week, the storm moved into favorable conditions. In only 24 hours, the storm nearly doubled in strength from winds of 75 mph (Category 1 hurricane intensity) to a Category 4 storm with winds of 140 mph.
Gabrielle attempted to follow in Hurricane Erin's footsteps from earlier this summer, making the jump from tropical storm to Category 3 hurricane in 24 hours and from tropical storm to Category 4 in under 30 hours. The two storms both underwent massive rapid intensification, but they have been the only hurricanes so far for the 2025 Hurricane Season as of late September.
Fortunately, Gabrielle took a sharp dog-leg turn to the east, carrying it safely away from Bermuda and the U.S.
Gabrielle's Track History
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