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It entered Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane, exited a Category 2 hurricane, and after leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, Paulette seemed to dissipate into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It came to be considered a post-tropical storm, but It dawned again at dawn from Monday to Tuesday with maximum winds of 95 kilometers per hour.
For the observer, the Aztic Anticyclone page, which tracks the weather forecast in the nine islands of the Azores, explained that “In terms of intensity, [Paulette] is between a tropical depression and a Category 1 hurricane “. After causing storms on the island of Santa Maria, Paulette is now heading to Madeira.
Predictions are that it will weaken and lose its tropical characteristics even before reaching it, but “being a small tropical system, it is always difficult to define an exact route“To storm. “Everything indicates that it will be calm, but you have to be careful to really confirm if it will be like this,” the page advances.
The most recent update from the North American National Hurricane Center, issued at 10 a.m. in mainland Portugal (less than an hour in the Azores), said Tropical Storm Paulette was at coordinates 34.7 N 23.7 W , between the islands of Ponta Delgada and Funchal; and 480 kilometers southeast of the Azores archipelago. It moves slowly, at 17 miles per hour, but carries more rain, thunder, and ocean waves.
Tropical storm #Paulette Notice 41: Paulette is moving southeast of the east-northeast of the Azores https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 22, 2020
Paulette is now heading east to the south of mainland Portugal, but will be heading to Madeira and then west long before reaching mainland. If everything goes as the weather forecasts indicate, The tropical storm is expected to finally dissipate later this week, even before reaching the islands of Madeira..
But Paulette’s journey through the waters of the North Atlantic is long (and full of unforeseen events). It was born on September 7 as the seventeenth depression of the 2020 hurricane season and has had a convulsed life: it gained strength, lost it again, recovered it in the face of all possibilities (there were very abrupt variations in the variation and speed of the wind , something that normally dispels storms), lost it again and came back to life as a hurricane – the sixth of the season and the first to sweep Bermuda since 2014.
The peak of intensity for Storm Paulette occurred on September 14, but was far from over. It weakened significantly over the next two days as it crossed the Atlantic to the Azores, but it insisted on resurfacing. It reached the Azores archipelago as a post-tropical storm, but it evolved into a tropical storm in the last hours, causing electrical storms in Santa María.
Ancient tropical cyclone #Paulette South of #Azores.
There is moderate wind in the region and rains are expected in the central group.
In G. Oriental there may be showers that can be strong and accompanied by thunderstorms. pic.twitter.com/zLr7F9tPtr– AnticicloneAcores (@ AnticicloneAco1) September 21, 2020
For the observer, the Aztic Anticyclone page, which tracks the weather forecast in the nine islands of the Azores, explained the phenomenon at the origin of these twists and turns: convections. “In meteorology, it is the process of heat energy transfer in the atmosphere, in which the heat-bearing body moves from side to side. In this case, [o corpo portador de calor] it is the hot air, heated by the surface of the sea, which rises in height because it is less dense ”.
Paulette arrived in the Azores archipelago in a “post-tropical phase” in which “the core was no longer hot, that is, it could no longer support the convection organized around it, contrary to what happens in tropical storms”.
But when changed to lower latitudes, finding higher temperatures on the sea surface, convection was possible again, leading to showers and thunderstorms. At this time, “as the winds are strong enough around this core, the storm has acquired the status of a tropical storm.”
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