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Wind, rain, and wildfire: the wrath Hurricane Ophelia brought to Europe
Vox
Yet another Atlantic cyclone this season is racking up major damage and a rising death toll, this time across the pond in a region that rarely gets such storms.
Hurricane Ophelia, now a post-tropical cyclone, is adding to an especially brutal few months for climate and weather-related disasters around the world.
In the United States, four major hurricanes — Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate — battered the East Coast. Meanwhile, wildfires have torched large swaths of forest and shrub land in the West. In Europe, storms and wildfires are now cheek and jowl, with the former feeding into one of Europe’s worst fire seasons.
Ophelia stands out because of its location and trajectory as the farthest east a storm of its strength has ever formed.