Post TC Katia: N Europe: Please Post Your Prep & Impact
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Post TC Katia: N Europe: Please Post Your Prep & Impact
Being a rare and intense system, decided to post for the region
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CrazyC83 wrote:Mods, feel free to sticky this. It could be a rare case of a hurricane-like system (albeit post-tropical) in the warm season there.
Well, here in N Germany we already felt the first cyclonic system of this fall early last week (named "Erich" by the local met institute of Berlin)
I measured 10-min sustained winds of 40 knots, 1-minute winds of 44 knots and gusts between 52 and 55 knots.
Not a hurricane-force type system, but still some fun.
I'm not expecting to feel Katia stronger than Erich here, since she's passing well west of me.
Still she could cause some 60-70 knot winds over the Hebrides/NW Scotland and N Ireland.
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EX HURRICANE KATIA BATTERS THE UK AND IRELAND
Mon Sep 12, 11:28 pmBST
Sligo, Ireland,
One person was killed on Monday afternoon as parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland were battered by the remnants of Hurricane Katia. Damage and flooding was also reported.
Katia emerged in the far eastern Atlantic on August 29 and made its way north of the Caribbean before turning towards the north, staying well off the East Coast of the United States. It then rapidly crossed the Atlantic for a second time during the weekend as it lost tropical characteristics but remained near hurricane-strength as it approached Europe.
Forecasters in Ireland and the United Kingdom had issued weather warnings for large parts of the region as post-tropical cyclone Katia passed close to the north of Scotland, causing strong winds and heavy rainfall throughout Monday.
In Ireland, the strongest gust recorded was 122.5 km/h at Malin Head in County Donegal. Elsewhere, Belmullet in County Mayo recorded a 112 km/h gust.
“In the UK, the maximum sustained winds we saw was about 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour at Capel Curig in north Wales,” said Met Office forecaster Dan Gray. The strongest gust was at Cairngorm in Scotland and that was 144.5 kilometers per hour.
Gray said the most severe weather affected the region between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time on Monday, but stormy weather is forecast to continue into Tuesday. “The windiest weather will last until about midnight our time tonight,” he added.
In northeast England, a driver was killed at around 3 p.m. local time when a tree fell on a minibus between Staindrop and Barnard Castle, near Dunhouse Quarry, in County Durham. A passenger in the vehicle was injured.
Elsewhere in County Durham, in the village of Langley Moor, fifteen cars sustained serious damage when strong winds collapsed a roof at a business premises. There were no reports of injuries.
“There have been a number of trees brought down, houses without power, we’ve seen very large waves, and a tidal surge on the west-northwest England and west Wales coastlines, which is producing some localized flooding in those areas,” Gray said.
Katia was the eleventh named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season and was a major category four hurricane at its peak. The name was added to this year’s rotating storm roster to replace Katrina which killed more than 1,800 people in August 2005 when it made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border in the United States.
According to Accuweather – By Tuesday, the former Katia will depart the United Kingdom and will head toward western Norway. The former Katia will unleash gale-force, potentially damaging, gusts and heavy rain in areas of southern Scandinavia overnight and Tuesday.
Strong winds and rain will hit Denmark, southern Norway and southern Sweden.
Mon Sep 12, 11:28 pmBST
Sligo, Ireland,
One person was killed on Monday afternoon as parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland were battered by the remnants of Hurricane Katia. Damage and flooding was also reported.
Katia emerged in the far eastern Atlantic on August 29 and made its way north of the Caribbean before turning towards the north, staying well off the East Coast of the United States. It then rapidly crossed the Atlantic for a second time during the weekend as it lost tropical characteristics but remained near hurricane-strength as it approached Europe.
Forecasters in Ireland and the United Kingdom had issued weather warnings for large parts of the region as post-tropical cyclone Katia passed close to the north of Scotland, causing strong winds and heavy rainfall throughout Monday.
In Ireland, the strongest gust recorded was 122.5 km/h at Malin Head in County Donegal. Elsewhere, Belmullet in County Mayo recorded a 112 km/h gust.
“In the UK, the maximum sustained winds we saw was about 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour at Capel Curig in north Wales,” said Met Office forecaster Dan Gray. The strongest gust was at Cairngorm in Scotland and that was 144.5 kilometers per hour.
Gray said the most severe weather affected the region between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time on Monday, but stormy weather is forecast to continue into Tuesday. “The windiest weather will last until about midnight our time tonight,” he added.
In northeast England, a driver was killed at around 3 p.m. local time when a tree fell on a minibus between Staindrop and Barnard Castle, near Dunhouse Quarry, in County Durham. A passenger in the vehicle was injured.
Elsewhere in County Durham, in the village of Langley Moor, fifteen cars sustained serious damage when strong winds collapsed a roof at a business premises. There were no reports of injuries.
“There have been a number of trees brought down, houses without power, we’ve seen very large waves, and a tidal surge on the west-northwest England and west Wales coastlines, which is producing some localized flooding in those areas,” Gray said.
Katia was the eleventh named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season and was a major category four hurricane at its peak. The name was added to this year’s rotating storm roster to replace Katrina which killed more than 1,800 people in August 2005 when it made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border in the United States.
According to Accuweather – By Tuesday, the former Katia will depart the United Kingdom and will head toward western Norway. The former Katia will unleash gale-force, potentially damaging, gusts and heavy rain in areas of southern Scandinavia overnight and Tuesday.
Strong winds and rain will hit Denmark, southern Norway and southern Sweden.
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