Brazil Gets Hit by Extratropical Strom with Cat-1 Winds

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Brazil Gets Hit by Extratropical Strom with Cat-1 Winds

#1 Postby HurricaneHunter914 » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:54 pm

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/h ... razil1.gif
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMa ... amp=200609

This was from Jeff MAster's Blog

Huge extratropical storm hits Brazil
Perhaps the most damaging storm in the world this September was not Ernesto in the Atlantic, John in Baja, nor Ioke on Wake Island. Brazil had an usually intense wintertime extratropical cyclone bring wind gusts to hurricane force along the coast of Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, on September 2. Winds of 101 km/h in that state's capital city of Porto Alegre tore roofs of of houses, downed trees and powerlines, and caused power outages to half a million people. Luiz Fernando Nachtigall, Chief Meteorologist for MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center, sent me a link to some damage photos from the event. After the wind event, the storm brought the most widespread snow event in Southern Brazil since 1994. It snowed in 62 cities.
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#2 Postby Trugunzn » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:01 pm

WOW :eek:
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#3 Postby AJC3 » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:05 pm

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#4 Postby WindRunner » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:06 pm

No argument on that one - definately ET. Quite an impressive-looking storm down there, though. Astounding quickscats there.
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#5 Postby Trugunzn » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:08 pm

Any one have a imagry of it?
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#6 Postby P.K. » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:11 pm

Even converting from a 10 minute average 101km/h winds are not quite cat 1. They have stated elsewhere however that they believe there were gusts to 120km/h which is hurricane strength, but obviously not a sustained wind. There is a larger sat image and more links here.
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#7 Postby AJC3 » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:13 pm

I have a REALLY good image of a nasty storm down that way from a few years back. Will try and dig it out here in a few...

OK here it is, from 30 AUG, 2002 - four years ago

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http://home.cfl.rr.com/tcrist/images/So ... yclone.gif

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http://home.cfl.rr.com/tcrist/images/So ... loneQS.gif


Almost in the exact same place!
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#9 Postby Meso » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:40 pm

These storms always seem to slip just south of us here... This winter was rather quite quiet indeed.Except for the snowfalls up country.Only had max winds of about 55km/h sustained (Although I guess we do get a few big systems come through late sept/oct stll)... But I`m assuming we won't see another storm like the storm of May 1984 where we got winds gusts of 180km/h (I wasn't born yet so I don't remember it) Last decent storm I remember was 2001 with 140/150 km/h gusts...
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