Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

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Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

#1 Postby Cyclenall » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:32 pm

I found the furthest north category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic so far to be Hurricane Ella of 1978 during the peak of the season:

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It reached 42.50 latitude. Is there any recorded hurricane at that strength any higher?

It would be quite something for eastern Canada to get that direct hit!
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#2 Postby Frank2 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:51 pm

There was a hurricane that made "landfall" on Iceland, but, I can't recall which one...
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Re: Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

#3 Postby WmE » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:00 pm

Frank2 wrote:There was a hurricane that made "landfall" on Iceland, but, I can't recall which one...


Iceland?? I don't think so. But there was Hurricane Faith in 1966 which made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on the Faroe Islands.
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#4 Postby Frank2 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:07 pm

Ah - that's the one (Hurricane Faith) - well, I knew it was Iceland or close to it (from what I just read, the Faroe Islands are halfway between Iceland and Norway)...

It's Friday - my brain is toasty...

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#5 Postby WmE » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:17 pm

Frank2 wrote:Ah - that's the one (Hurricane Faith) - well, I knew it was Iceland or close to it (from what I just read, the Faroe Islands are halfway between Iceland and Norway)...

It's Friday - my brain is toasty...

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Here's the track. It also made landfall in Norway just after becoming extratropical.

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Re: Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

#6 Postby Frank2 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:33 pm

Yipes - can you imagine the posts here concerning a track like that ("JB says look out Florida and/or North Carolina and/or New England!")

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#7 Postby Cyclenall » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:43 pm

The main subject was a CAT4 hurricane (not just a weak hurricane) being the furthest north.

I always wondered though how Faith didn't become extratropical up there soon enough.
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#8 Postby Category 5 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:47 pm

Faith was almost certainly extratropical long before reaching the Faroe Islands.
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Re: Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

#9 Postby Cyclenall » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:54 pm

Category 5 wrote:Faith was almost certainly extratropical long before reaching the Faroe Islands.

Do you think it's going to be updated later on that Faith isn't as impressive as we first thought? I doubt it too but I ponder why this one was kept tropical that far north unlike others in years past.
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Re: Furthest north CAT4 hurricane in the Atlantic is Ella of '78

#10 Postby CrazyC83 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:36 pm

Cyclenall wrote:I found the furthest north category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic so far to be Hurricane Ella of 1978 during the peak of the season:

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It reached 42.50 latitude. Is there any recorded hurricane at that strength any higher?

It would be quite something for eastern Canada to get that direct hit!


I think emergency planners in Atlantic Canada should be using Ella as their baseline - imagine if it had turned left and hit the coast directly - it would have been at least a strong Category 3 at landfall, which is quite a bit stronger than Juan ever was...

That probably had some intense baroclinic energy pushing into a tropical structure in order to get those 140 mph winds...
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