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Hurricane Vince was one of the most unusual hurricanes ever to develop in the Atlantic basin, forming in October during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Vince was the 21st nameable tropical cyclone and twelfth hurricane of the extremely active season. Vince developed from a non-tropical system on October 8, becoming a subtropical storm southeast of the Azores. The National Hurricane Center did not officially name the storm until the next day, shortly before Vince briefly became a hurricane. Vince then made an unprecedented landfall on the Iberian Peninsula on October 11 as a tropical depression, dissipating over Spain. Hurricane Vince developed into a hurricane further east than any known storm at 18.9°W.

No damages or fatalities were reported from Hurricane Vince. The highest winds reported on land were 77 km/h (48 mph) at Jerez, Spain, though some ships recorded stronger winds. Vince was comparable to normal rain events from non-tropical systems, with only 1 to 2 inches (25 to 50 mm) of rain falling. Through a play on words of a song in My Fair Lady, National Hurricane Center forecaster James Franklin in the Tropical Cyclone Report for Vince wrote, "the rain in Spain was mainly less than 2 inches, although 3.30 inches (84 mm) fell in the plain at Cordoba."

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