Norwegian Sea low 930mb on Thurs - a record breaker?

[stu]

Norwegian Sea low - record breaker?


The GFS now has a Norwegian sea depression deepening explosively to below 930mb on Thurs 23rd December - could this become a record breaker! The lowest recorded was a staggering 912mb - 916mb in 1986.

Here is the 12Z chart at T+36

http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

And the winds around it are 60KT+ mean - that’s nearly hurricane strength!

And here is a link to an interesting article on the deepest Atlantic pressure recorded outside a tornado or a hurricane - below 920mb in 1986.

http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pres ... ordlow1986 .html

Note the similarities between that event, and this one - in that two lows merged into one...

[P.K.]

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=54164 -

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/abin/piccygridhtml/avhrr/2004/12/21/2008/ch4.jpg - Latest IR image

Is there a page with buoy data for that area? The page I have book marked doesn't cover that area.

[stu]

No bouys so we will have to go with Ship reports

here is a Sat wind plot that might be useful and sorry about starting another thread

[P.K.]

6pm MetO FAX chart had the low at 943hPa. The 6pm GFS run has it reaching a minimum pressure of around 935hPa at midday tomorrow, and then beginning to fill again.