Hurricane Marcel

On September 2nd,the national hurricane center started to watch a large area of showers and thunderstorms 1000 miles near the azores.Despite sea surface temperatures of 75 degrees celsius,rapid intensification ensured with a tropical depression forming on September 3rd.Despite the formation of a tropical depression,the depression sturggled to intensify into a tropical storm due to sea surface temperatures of about 75 degrees and very strong shear and began to resemble an look of an extratropical cyclone once the system began to approach the azores.The depression suddenly strengthned into a tropical storm and recieved the name marcel on september 7th.Many forcasters predicted that marcel will dissipate but despite sea surface temperatures of 65 degrees,marcel continued to maintain intensity and resumed it's intensity on a westward track towards europe.Waters started to become more favorable for development as they approaced 70 degrees and due to low windshear and dry air,rapid intensification resumed with the system becoming a hurricane.Defying forcasts,Marcel continued to intensity and became a category 2 hurricane.The system then approaced europe and weakened to a category 1 hurricane and made landfall with winds of 80 miles per hour.

Heavy rain caused many deaths and this was the beggining,even though marcel disspated over europe.It merged with a large low pressure system and devested europe causing 217 deaths with 2 fatalties.The hurricane due to the amout of damage was prompted an upgrade to a category 3 hurricane.