Hurricane Ophelia to Brush the Azores This Weekend; May Affect Ireland Next Week
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Found this, not sure how accurate it is: https://www.hwn.org/resources/bws.html
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We have any folks from the republic on here?
They've shut all the schools and telling everyone to get prepared although so far it's just the typical northern irish rain.
They're saying should be getting bad around 3pm
They've shut all the schools and telling everyone to get prepared although so far it's just the typical northern irish rain.
They're saying should be getting bad around 3pm
Mostly 40-50mph winds tops for the SW except right down in Cornwall which might see 60-70mph winds. Aside from things like trees already vulnerable due to past storms, etc. damage will likely be fairly light for the SW.
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Should get a tad breezy on the North Wales coast later, although it's almost perfectly still at the moment 
Calm before and all that...
Calm before and all that...
very solid wind here with the trees behind the camel trail swaying ,not worrying about my shed greenhouse yet though quite dark though with those ominous dark clouds flying past ,going to have look at the ocean when the swell hits later ,sometimes its just a blown out mass of white water
Should get a tad breezy on the North Wales coast later, although it's almost perfectly still at the moment
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-3.51,46.22,1329
Hurricanes shouldn't go that north without losing strength and partly disintegrating.
Where does this one get the necessary energy from?
I work for a company based in Dublin, so far not had any response from anyone this morning so unsure if everyone is just on lockdown!
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-3.51,46.22,1329
Hurricanes shouldn't go that north without losing strength and partly disintegrating.
Where does this one get the necessary energy from?
An unlikely combination of factors - there was a warm trough ahead of it that was exactly in the right place to sustain it, some patches of unusual cold in the upper atmosphere in its path that also helped to stop it dissipating - though doesn't hold the same power as when the temperature difference comes from properly warm ocean below and so on.
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fair enough, let us know how it goes as i'm due to head to an appointment right as the storm hits
a customer i deal with in Ireland, 20 miles from Dublin is saying that its like 4am on a sunday morning driving around. Just nobody anywhere, everything closing schools closed, banks open till 10am etc and heading home to make sure all is safe
All quiet but winds are supposedly meant to pick up between 12 - 3pm...we will not be dispatching any goods today. Will be fun as I can imagine there will be hefty backlogs at the port come the time when the storm quietens down.
Just what you want as businesses are ramping up for the Christmas rush!
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It's dark and windy here in Wales. Also, the air temperature feels uncharacteristically warm
Anyone know whether Ophelia is a storm or a hurricane as the BBC sure as hell don't as the reporter spoke of storm Ophelia heading for Ireland the ticker tape that runs along the bottom of the screen called it a hurricane. Am I right in assuming that whether it is a storm or a hurricane makes a difference where wind speeds are concerned?
Storm is more of an umbrella term. It started as a hurricane but its kind of contentious as to its nature now.
EDIT: Most accepted version at the moment seems to be that its transitioning (fairly late in the phase now - like "10% hurricane left") from a cat 1 hurricane to extratropical cyclone.
Cheers, a quick Google gave me this "A storm becomes a hurricane when sustained winds reach a minimum of 74 miles per hour." Still a bit confusing to call it both in the same report though.