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Ophelia became a major hurricane where no storm had before
- marcosscriven 9y agoIt happens also to have turned the afternoon sky a deep Mars-like red. It was quite a fascinating sight, lots of people comparing it to Blade Runner 2049 or Instagram filters.
- nejenendn 9y agoHeh, we have a similar experience here in the bay area from all the wild fires.
- theyregreat 9y agoConfirmed. The iOS weather app even listed “Smoke” instead of “Cloudy” or “Overcast.” It’s not funny though. For example, my folks live on a mesa surrounded by pine trees and vegetation on three sides. Last week, an intentionally-set fire (quickly contained) took out their phone lines.
- meddlepal 9y agoI'm in London for the O'Reilly Software Architects conference and I looked out my window at one point and was like "woah" that's an ominous orange sky. It was really cool and weird.
- sampo 9y agoCarrying dust from Sahara, but also smoke from all the wildfires in Portugal right now.
- megy 9y agohttp://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41635906 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41635906
- littlestymaar 9y ago30 years ago, almost the same day, a hurricane category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale reached France and the British Isles : http://tempetes.meteofrance.fr/L-ouragan-du-15-au-16-octobre-1987.html http://tempetes.meteofrance.fr/L-ouragan-du-15-au-16-octobre... (in French). Edit: fixed the quotation on the Saphir Simpson scale that was incorrectly taken from the article.
- Retric 9y agoThat did not make landfall as a hurricane. "In south-east England, where the greatest damage occurred, gusts of 70 knots (130 km/h; 81 mph)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm_of_1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Storm_of_1987 However, it takes Sustained winds of 111–129 mph to be a Category 3. Also the great storm of 1987 made landfall significantly south of this one. http://engweb.swan.ac.uk/~hewstonr/Great_Storm.html http://engweb.swan.ac.uk/~hewstonr/Great_Storm.html vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ophelia_(2017)#/media/File:Ophelia_2017_track.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ophelia_(2017)#/medi...
- littlestymaar 9y agoThe Meteo France article I quoted is actually a bit misleading, it talks about a category 3 hurricane in a not really rigorous way «damages caused by this storm has been on par with the ones done by a category 3 hurricane» even tough you're right the sustained wind speed has been below the limit for a category 3. It's still strong enough to be classified as a category 1 (in england) or 2 in France. The actual reason why it wasn't a proper hurricane was because this word is reserved for tropical cyclones. Neither the great storm or Ophelia are tropical.
- mannykannot 9y agoCorrelations between the measured wind speeds and damage done by that storm, and another in 1999, have been used to estimate the intensity of the Great Storm of 1703 as a category 2 extra-tropical hurricane. http://forms2.rms.com/rs/729-DJX-565/images/ws_1703_windstorm_300_retrospective.pdf http://forms2.rms.com/rs/729-DJX-565/images/ws_1703_windstor...
- jacquesm 9y agoIt has been a few weeks now that the air here has been uncharacteristically warm. I've heard quite a few people remark on this totally unprompted. Today was 21 degrees here, when it normally would be 12-15 tops. All that energy will have to go somewhere.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoThe south of the UK often has a last gasp of summer in late Sept or early Oct. So the temps aren't that unusual. A couple of years ago I was living on the south coast. Towards the end of a recent summer we had a no-holds-barred tropical storm. Not only did lightning put on an incredible show across a huge area, but the external air temperature and humidity were tropical. Going outdoors was like stepping into a hot house, with torrents of warm rain. I've never experienced anything like it in the UK before.
- satysin 9y agoMany parts of the UK (including London where I am) had an oddly beautiful phenomenon thanks to Ophelia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41635906
- ojbyrne 9y agoNot much of an effect in Dublin so far.
- theyregreat 9y agoAny rain or clouds?
- secfirstmd 9y agoLight rain. Bit of wind. Have to say, while it is tragic that a few people have died on the roads, the way that Irish people handle a "National Emergency" like this is hilarious. Gotta love some of the dry humour going round!
- seanalltogether 9y agoN. Ireland for some reason has decided to close schools tomorrow as well. Seems like a bit of an over reaction.
- noelrock 9y agoThey literally have no parliament, Government or decision making capacity right now. Both days of closures in NI were clear copy and paste efforts within an hour of the rest of Ireland announcing same. Not a great way to make decisions !
- ian0 9y agoOn the bright side I guess they did make a decision. Unfortunately this early stage venture was practically assured of founder conflict :P
- Turing_Machine 9y agoHmmm... why wouldn't it be a good way to make decisions, assuming that the Republic of Ireland's weather people are competent, and their own people were unavailable (for whatever reason)? Some things are independent of politics, and tomorrow's weather is pretty high on that list. :-)
- mcguire 9y agoAs an aside,... "The Irish National Meteorological Service, Met Éireann..." Someone please tell me there's an "An Bord Rain" joke around here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_Snip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bord_Snip (Dang it, I can't find a link for An Bord Bun.)
- soVeryTired 9y agoThat'd be An Bord Baiste to you...
- mcguire 9y agoNiiice! Thank you!
- Y_Y 9y agoThe baptised board? Do you mean An Bord Báistí?
- soVeryTired 9y agoFeck it, I do. My Irish is banjaxed after ten years away from home.