HURRICANE HISTORICAL QUESTION?

[tropicsPR]

Are there any historical records for hurricanes arriving to the coasts of Europe? I mean Spain, France, England or farther north?

[ColdFront77]

I remember hearing that Faith made landfall along the Portugal coast. I don't recall the year.

[AussieMark]

Do u mean as a hurricane or a tropical storm or a storm that has generated into a extratropical storm.

[tropicsPR]

I mean as a hurricane(tropical or extra-tropical).

[weatherluvr]

Faith (or the remnants) made landfall in Norway in 1966. The remnants were tracked across Russia, and finally dissipated 300 miles from the north pole. (Now that's some heat transfer!)

Faith was still listed as a cat2 at 60.4N and 12W. (somehow I doubt these numbers)

The closest I could see a hurricane hitting Europe was Debbie in 1961, which became extratropical just off the coast of Ireland.

[weatherluvr]

Also, there's been some debate on whether the storm that destroyed the Spanish Armada off the Scottish coast as it was heading for an invasion of England in 1588 was in fact a hurricane, or the extratropical remnants.

[tropicsPR]

Thanks Weatherluvr. Very interesting facts.

[weatherluvr]

No problem. I guess all those encyclopedias I used to immerse myself into when I was little are finally paying off!

[Stormsfury]

Hurricane Faith - 1966 - amazing long-tracked storm -

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Trop ... s/1966.jpg

SF

[chadtm80]

Hurricane Faith
(August 21 to September 7, 1966)
Faith maintained hurricane intensity for a period of 15 days while traveling a complicated route around the southern, western and northern perimeter of the Bermuda high pressure system. The entire track of Faith represents one of the longest hurricane tracks on record. The centre of the hurricane passed within 40 kilometres of St. Maarten, Leeward Islands. There were gale force winds in the northern islands of the Leewards, the Virgin Islands, and along the northern coast of Puerto Rico but only minor damage was reported. Prior to reaching Scandinavia, Faith passed over the Faeroe Islands. There was no known loss of life on the Islands or in Scandinavia and only minor damage was reported, similar to the usual autumn storms.

Hurricane Faith is, however, held accountable for the loss of one crewman’s life when high seas battered the Alberto Benati in the western Atlantic, one person’s life who was missing and assumed drowned off the coast of Denmark, and for the lives of two men who were attempting to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat.

[chadtm80]

Date: 21 AUG-7 SEP 1966
Hurricane FAITH
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 12.90 -20.50 21/00Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 13.30 -22.30 21/06Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
3 13.70 -24.20 21/12Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
4 14.00 -26.10 21/18Z 25 1006 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
5 14.30 -28.00 22/00Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
6 14.60 -29.90 22/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
7 14.90 -31.90 22/12Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
8 15.00 -33.90 22/18Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
9 15.10 -35.80 23/00Z 50 - TROPICAL STORM
10 15.20 -37.80 23/06Z 50 - TROPICAL STORM
11 15.20 -39.80 23/12Z 65 - HURRICANE-1
12 15.30 -41.80 23/18Z 65 - HURRICANE-1
13 15.30 -43.80 24/00Z 80 - HURRICANE-1
14 15.30 -45.70 24/06Z 80 - HURRICANE-1
15 15.30 -47.70 24/12Z 80 992 HURRICANE-1
16 15.60 -49.80 24/18Z 85 - HURRICANE-2
17 16.00 -52.00 25/00Z 85 993 HURRICANE-2
18 16.30 -54.10 25/06Z 90 995 HURRICANE-2
19 16.60 -56.20 25/12Z 90 986 HURRICANE-2
20 16.90 -57.90 25/18Z 90 990 HURRICANE-2
21 17.30 -59.40 26/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
22 17.70 -60.80 26/06Z 85 997 HURRICANE-2
23 18.30 -62.20 26/12Z 80 995 HURRICANE-1
24 19.00 -63.70 26/18Z 75 - HURRICANE-1
25 19.70 -65.10 27/00Z 75 987 HURRICANE-1
26 20.40 -66.30 27/06Z 75 993 HURRICANE-1
27 21.00 -67.50 27/12Z 75 989 HURRICANE-1
28 21.60 -68.70 27/18Z 75 983 HURRICANE-1
29 22.10 -69.80 28/00Z 80 979 HURRICANE-1
30 22.70 -70.50 28/06Z 90 973 HURRICANE-2
31 23.30 -70.70 28/12Z 110 962 HURRICANE-3
32 23.70 -70.90 28/18Z 110 957 HURRICANE-3
33 24.00 -71.00 29/00Z 105 956 HURRICANE-3
34 24.40 -71.10 29/06Z 100 960 HURRICANE-3
35 24.90 -71.30 29/12Z 100 963 HURRICANE-3
36 25.30 -71.50 29/18Z 100 963 HURRICANE-3
37 25.80 -71.80 30/00Z 95 963 HURRICANE-2
38 26.30 -72.10 30/06Z 95 970 HURRICANE-2
39 26.90 -72.40 30/12Z 95 966 HURRICANE-2
40 27.40 -72.70 30/18Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
41 28.00 -73.00 31/00Z 90 967 HURRICANE-2
42 28.50 -73.30 31/06Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
43 29.30 -73.60 31/12Z 90 988 HURRICANE-2
44 30.50 -73.30 31/18Z 90 963 HURRICANE-2
45 31.70 -72.40 01/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
46 32.90 -71.40 01/06Z 95 963 HURRICANE-2
47 34.00 -70.30 01/12Z 95 963 HURRICANE-2
48 35.00 -69.20 01/18Z 95 957 HURRICANE-2
49 35.90 -68.00 02/00Z 95 958 HURRICANE-2
50 36.60 -66.80 02/06Z 95 - HURRICANE-2
51 37.00 -65.20 02/12Z 95 - HURRICANE-2
52 37.10 -63.00 02/18Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
53 37.10 -60.10 03/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
54 37.50 -57.00 03/06Z 90 950 HURRICANE-2
55 38.30 -54.00 03/12Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
56 39.70 -51.10 03/18Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
57 41.90 -48.10 04/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
58 44.70 -44.90 04/06Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
59 47.50 -41.50 04/12Z 90 954 HURRICANE-2
60 50.20 -37.80 04/18Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
61 52.80 -33.80 05/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
62 55.20 -29.40 05/06Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
63 57.30 -24.50 05/12Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
64 58.70 -19.40 05/18Z 90 - HURRICANE-2
65 60.40 -12.00 06/00Z 90 - HURRICANE-2

[ColdFront77]

I remember seeing a segment on The Weather Channel about Hurricane Faith's path. I know it was in the vinicity of Portugal's longitude. There was indeed another storm that almost made landfall along Portugal's coast.

[weatherluvr]

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.gif[url]

This is the closest I could find... not sure if it counts[/url]

[ColdFront77]

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1987/ARLENE/track.gif

This is the closest I could find... not sure if it counts

That must of been it. Quite a track! Thanks weatherluvr.

[GalvestonDuck]

I believe I read somewhere that the only continent to never get hit by a tropical cyclone is Antarctica. Of course that doesn't mean that every coast of all the other continents is a landfall target.

Interesting info about Faith and Arlene.