Scratching
Category 2 Hurricane Kirk was still in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, some 3,000 kilometers west of the Moroccan coast on Sunday with winds between 150 and 180 km/h. This Monday, October 7, it lost intensity and was downgraded to category 1 with winds of between 120 and 150 km/h, according to the Weather Channel.
Accumulations of rain and strong winds
Tuesday, October 8, Kirk will have lost further intensity as it gains colder waters to the point of becoming nothing more than a tropical depression with winds up to 120 km/h. A level of intensity that it will maintain until its passage over the northwest then the north of France on Wednesday evening.
“Wednesday with the arrival of the ex-Kirk depression, heavy rains set in in the northwest with cumulative amounts of rain reaching 40 to 60 mm in a few hours. Associated with this depression, a strong gale, or even a storm, is expected, first on the Atlantic coast at the end of the day then inland the following night,” warns Météo-France.
