I'm going to answer a question first: The UK has never been hit by an actual tropical cyclone. Water temperatures round here are way too low to sustain such a system (requires water temperatures in excess of 26C / 80 F). We do get the remnants of cyclones; 16 October 1987 saw hurricane-force winds in southern England, after a remnant of a tropical system scooted up the English Channel and decided to do its worst.
Hurricane Gordon is in the Central Atlantic at the moment, and is likely to turn into a very nasty Atlantic depression. This is going to batter the Azores by the end of the week with winds between force 10 and 12 on the Beaufort scale. It may still retain tropical characteristics, which means a lot of rain as well. The Azores are situated west of Portugal.
Hurricane Helene is a major hurricane in the Atlantic, and the forecasters have not really got their act together on its future path. It may veer north, but it could just as well creep west.
Tropical depression Miriam is situated in the Eastern Pacific, and is going to head towards northern Baja California, and there is an outside chance that the extreme south of the US state of California may get a swipe - don't worry, no high winds, just rain. Update from 1500 GMT bulletin: Miriam is likely to dissipate within 24 hours, west of central Baja California.
Typhoon-to-be Yagi is doing a U-turn between Wake Island and Guam, and will then head for Iwo Jima by Saturday. 125 mph winds are not my idea of fun.
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I remember the mini-hurricane well, the noise of it was amazing and not a little frightening. It did a lot of damage to local forestry, some of which still hasn`t recovered fully to this day.
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