Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument
Situational Awareness
Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors; Weather
Descending into ZZZ; scattered cloud deck around 4;300 feet. Winds gusty and variable out of the south over close terrain. Cleared for the visual approach from Center and started a left pattern for Runway XX backed up by the RNAV XX for reference. Terrain page active on CA (Captain) side MFD. On base turn; aircraft was still descending resulting in a level off at 1;000 feet while on base. Ground track was toward terrain even though in VMC. On base to final turn to line up with runway; 'Terrain; Terrain; Pull Up' sounded resulting in an immediate go-around per company procedures. Subsequent approach was conducted from the initial approach fix to runway XX resulting in a successful approach and landing.
EMB-145 First Officer reported executing a go-around after receiving a GPWS terrain alert on a visual approach.