Hurricane warning issued for Azores

MIAMI — A hurricane warning was issued for the Azores as hurricane Gordon moved rapidly toward the sparsely populated group of islands Tuesday, while hurricane Helene remained a large Category 3 storm, but was expected to miss Bermuda, forecasters said.

The islands off the Atlantic Coast of Africa should feel the effects of Gordon by Tuesday night, said Dan Brown a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

As of 5 a.m., Gordon was in the open Atlantic, centred about 1,010 kilometres west of Terceira in the Azores and moving east near 45 kilometres an hour. This motion was expected to continue throughout the next day, with some increase in speed.

Gordon had maximum sustained winds near 160 km/h and was expected to slowly weaken by Wednesday. If it does become an extratropical storm that gets energy from colliding weather fronts, it could still have tropical storm force winds.

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