Hurricane Alex ready to whip Azores

The National Hurricane Center has upgraded a storm brewing in the Atlantic Ocean to hurricane status, a rarity for January.

Pali, in the central Pacific, is the the earliest hurricane ever recorded over the Central Pacific Basin in a calendar year, forming 19 days earlier than the previous record holder, Hurricane Ekeka of 1992.

As of the 10 AM advisory, Alex has winds of 85 miles per hour and expected to strengthen a bit more as it heads towards the Azores Island in the north Atlantic, where it is expected to make landfall tomorrow.

In fact, several areas of the islands have already been placed under tropical storm warning.

Is Alex a 2015 or 2016 hurricane name?

FORECAST FOR ALEX: Steering winds will likely guide Alex and its gusty showers through the Azores region through Thursday and Friday. It should eventually turn north and pick up speed before going over the Azores on Friday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. Well… a subtropical storm has both tropical and non tropical (sometimes referred to as extratropical) characteristics and typically has large wind fields. Alex has the potential to transform back into a non-tropical low-pressure system by the time it reaches the Azores, according to The Weather Channel.

As already clarified earlier, Hurricane Alex is 2300 miles away from the United States coast and it would have little effect on the weather conditions in the country.

Sometimes subtropical storms can become fully tropical over the course of time.

The forecaster who wrote the discussion noted that it is rare to see a hurricane form above waters that have a temperature colder than 20 degrees Celsius, or 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The National Hurricane Center warned Azores that the heavy rainfall and wind can cause life-threatening mudslides and unsafe flooding along the shores.