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Category 3 Hurricane Gabrielle weakens as it moves towards Portugal's Azores Islands while the National Hurricane Center (NHC) monitors two systems in the Atlantic with the potential to become cyclones heading towards the United States.
The US agency stated that "Gabrielle continues to show signs of gradual weakening" in the latest report, which placed it 1,200 miles or 1,935 kilometers west of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal.
The phenomenon, which emerged a week ago as a tropical storm, has maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour or 175 kilometers per hour with a displacement of 25 miles per hour or 41 kilometers per hour.
Although this cyclone will not make landfall in the United States, the NHC warned that "swell generated by Gabrielle will continue to affect Bermuda over the next two days, and the east coast of the United States from North Carolina northward and Atlantic Canada for the next day or so."
On the other hand, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring two systems with the potential to impact the United States, one in the eastern Caribbean Sea with an 80% chance of becoming a cyclone within the next seven days, and another in the central Atlantic with a 90% probability.
The first one will cause rains and winds in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic starting this Wednesday.
So far, seven cyclones have been recorded this year in the Atlantic: hurricanes Erin and Gabrielle, and storms Andrea, Barry, Dexter, Fernand and Chantal, which was the only one to make landfall in the United States, where it caused two deaths in July in North Carolina.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an "above-normal" hurricane season, estimating between 13 and 18 tropical storms, of which between five and nine could become hurricanes.
