Groupama 3: late again

The weather situation over the next few hours is virtually the mirror image of that five years ago: blasts of tropical heat forming over Brazil are shifting out to sea to form storm squalls, which are releasing colossal amounts of energy in the form of rain, wind, lightning and thunder.

However, behind these enormous cumuliform clouds, will come a series of calm patches as the atmosphere is disturbed by these mini lows, which are sometimes causing the breeze to shift round 360°!

Bruno Peyron and his crew will be all too familiar with this scenario, as they had their three slowest days of their victorious Jules Verne Trophy attempt at this stage in 2005. As a result Franck Cammas and his men are this Wednesday closing on this second stormy zone, which is less organised than the first they traversed on Tuesday evening. The electric, eclectic, erratic activity of this warm, wet mass will depend on the alternation of the wind and calms.

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Sport \| Jules Verne Trophy
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Sport \| Jules Verne Trophy
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Sport \| Jules Verne Trophy
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Sport \| Offshore of Argentinean coast
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Sport \| Jules Verne Trophy
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