Another hurricane will approach the region of Portugal. Hurricane Lorenzo will skirt past the Azores later this week as a Category 2 hurricane. Several parts of the islands in the Atlantic were under a hurricane or tropical storm watch as Hurricane Lorenzo inched closer and closer. The Category 2 storm has threatened the Azores for days. Early Monday, it was about 1,160 miles from the islands and packing 110 mph winds. The Azores is a group of paradise-like islands roughly 950 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. As Lorenzo approaches, it will bring up to 6 inches of rain over most of the western Azores and up to 2 inches over the central Azores. The rainfall could cause life-threatening flooding in the western portion of the Azores. Sao Miguel and Santa Maria are under tropical storm watches as well. Lorenzo's hurricane-force winds currently extend 90 miles outward from the storm's center and its tropical storm-force winds extend 255 miles out. As hurricane Lorenzo moves closer, Portugal’s Azores archipelago is bracing for strong winds, heavy rain and towering waves and the country’s meteorology agency IPMA said there was more than an 80% chance of the storm hitting the mid-Atlantic islands. Western islands of Flores and Corvo are likely to be most affected, as well as the central islands of Sao Jorge, Pico, Graciosa, Faial and Terceira, one of the largest of the archipelago.
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