The remnants of Hurricane Kirk are forecast to hit northwest France on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and gale-force winds.

This satellite image, taken by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 3 October 2024, shows Hurricane Kirk about 2,000 km southwest of the Azores Archipelago. On the same day the image was captured, Kirk intensified into a Category 4 storm in the central Atlantic,

Even though Kirk is over the open ocean, it was still producing large swells and potentially dangerous rip currents across parts of the Caribbean, Bermuda and the east coast of the United States early on Monday.