Hurricane Kirk, the 11th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season that peaked at a category 4 hurricane is heading for western Europe as a post-tropical cyclone.

As of Monday October 7th at 9am GMT, according to National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Kirk has almost completed extratropical transition. The inner core of the system has basically collapsed and deep convection is limited to the northern half of the circulation. The system is moving into a baroclinic zone, and it is expected to be an extratropical cyclone later today.

As the hurricane is moving into an area of stronger shear, drier air, cooler waters and decreased upper-level dynamics, Kirk is expected to lose its strength but the system’s wind field will remain large which means that Kirk will be an intense extra-tropical cyclone the next few days.

Landfall is expected on Wednesday over western France. On it’s way to western France, Kirk is expected to bring torrential rain, damaging winds, swell and large waves and in parts of northern Portugal and nortwestern Spain, with a brief storm surge possible as well. The same threats are also expected in western France, with the storm however further losing its strength as it moves inland. Below you can see the total accummulated precipitation expected over Europe until early Thursday (10/10) and the peak wind gusts in km/h.

At the same time, 2 more hurricanes, Milton and Leslie are active in the Atlantic, which makes it the first time in history that 3 active hurricanes are churning the Atlantic at once during October as shown below.

The probable paths of Milton and Leslie are also shown in the images below.

Leslie is expected to remain in the Atlantic till the end of the week whereas Milton is a major hurricane category 4 and is expected to make landfall over western Florida on Wednesday, with an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds, as well as heavy rainfall.

Hurricane Kirk, the 11th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season that peaked at a category 4 hurricane is heading for western Europe as a post-tropical cyclone.

As of Monday October 7th at 9am GMT, according to National Hurricane Center (NHC), Hurricane Kirk has almost completed extratropical transition. The inner core of the system has basically collapsed and deep convection is limited to the northern half of the circulation. The system is moving into a baroclinic zone, and it is expected to be an extratropical cyclone later today.

As the hurricane is moving into an area of stronger shear, drier air, cooler waters and decreased upper-level dynamics, Kirk is expected to lose its strength but the system’s wind field will remain large which means that Kirk will be an intense extra-tropical cyclone the next few days.

Landfall is expected on Wednesday over western France. On it’s way to western France, Kirk is expected to bring torrential rain, damaging winds, swell and large waves and in parts of northern Portugal and nortwestern Spain, with a brief storm surge possible as well. The same threats are also expected in western France, with the storm however further losing its strength as it moves inland. Below you can see the total accummulated precipitation expected over Europe until early Thursday (10/10) and the peak wind gusts in km/h.

At the same time, 2 more hurricanes, Milton and Leslie are active in the Atlantic, which makes it the first time in history that 3 active hurricanes are churning the Atlantic at once during October as shown below.

The probable paths of Milton and Leslie are also shown in the images below.

Leslie is expected to remain in the Atlantic till the end of the week whereas Milton is a major hurricane category 4 and is expected to make landfall over western Florida on Wednesday, with an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds, as well as heavy rainfall.