Gabrielle’s Fury: Atlantic Hurricane Threatens Azores, Portugal, and Morocco

Will Hurricane Gabrielle bring bad weather to Morocco? After hitting the Azores archipelago on Friday, September 26, 2025, Gabrielle should then lose its hurricane status on Saturday, September 27, becoming a tropical storm and then a post-tropical depression as it reaches southern Portugal on Sunday, September 28. "Gabrielle is expected to approach the Portuguese coast on Sunday morning. Swells likely to produce potentially deadly waves and rip currents are expected to reach Portugal, northwestern Spain and northern Morocco on Saturday," says the Associated Press.

Hurricane Gabrielle is the 7th named tropical cyclone. It is the second to reach hurricane threshold and the second major hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, after Hurricane Erin in mid-August. The latter had reached Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (maximum level). Gabrielle became a tropical storm on September 17, then a hurricane on September 21. According to the Météo France website, the intensification of the storm was lightning fast: last Monday, it went from Category 1 to Category 3, then 4 in just 24 hours, during its passage east of Bermuda.