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The Met Office has issued its latest update on Hurricane Gabrielle, warning of a chance of heavy rain and strong winds across the UK over the next days.

The update comes as Hurricane Gabrielle, which was a major category four hurricane, was tracked to be moving eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean towards Europe.

Hurricane Gabrielle is expected to take a southern track and move towards the Azores islands in Portugal , where a hurricane warning is in place into Friday. Gabrielle is then expected to decay into an ex-tropical storm as it moves eastwards to the Bay of Biscay, towards the coast of France and Spain.

But while Hurricane Gabrielle is set to be relatively far away from the UK, the Met Office warns it could still have an influence on the weather at home, as ha

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