(Bloomberg) -- This year’s Atlantic hurricane season is so fierce that even Ireland and Britain will get a piece of the action.
|Ophelia moving NE
Ophelia, the 10th straight Atlantic tropical storm to become a hurricane, is moving northeast and will approach Ireland on Monday before moving over Scotland, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. With winds currently about 90 miles per hour, it’s set to be the strongest storm in the far eastern Atlantic since Hurricane Ivan in 1980.
This Atlantic storm season has already racked up the most consecutive hurricanes since the late 19th century and brought devastation to Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. Europe had a taste of the stormy conditions early this month from the remnants of hurricanes Maria and Lee, which helped push U.K. wind-power generation to a record.
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