category-2 sustained winds in isolated places!

[James]

Wow

[James]

The BBC has set up a good page here showing pictures of the storm's aftermath.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/4157429.stm

[Gorky]

The storm has now moved into Scandinavia, and 7 are reported killed so far. It makes you realise how lucky we are it hit at night here in the uk with few people on the roads or in towns. Plenty of trees down where I live but only 1 injury from flying debris. My Dad's shop has a large wooden frontage above the front window which was torn down landing on the pavement. If it had been daytime someone could very easily have been kileld. The 3 council workmen who came and removed it couldn't lift it it was so heavy and had to cut the thing up. A good thing it fell early and didn't stay up until peak winds at 8.00am as it could have fallen on ym Dad when he was opening the shop up

[KWT]

well still got two storms on there way.

one tonight giving max gusts of 70mph,although furthur flooding is the mian problem this time.

then on Tuesday/wednesday we have another deep LP affecting mainly the north,likely to give simular gusts as the last one to the north,but nothing more then a stiff breeze for the south.

Finally by Thursday a ridge moves in and things settles down with the high moving over us for a short while.

[P.K.]

I've just logged onto the football game I play (Based in Sweden) and have seen this message.

09/01/2005 Hurricane disrupts Hattrick access
A hurricane has disrupted the power and Internet networks throughout southern Sweden. The remaining Internet connections are severely overloaded. Therefore you can expect Hattrick to be slow or unavailable from time to time until further notice. Please be assured that the servers are operating normally, they are just hard to reach.

Seems no one in Europe actually knows what a hurricane is.

[KWT]

just like the 1987 storm all over again!!!

[P.K.]

lol - I've now got into a debate with Swedish people about whether or not it should be called a hurricane. Apparently the Swedes refer to windspeed of greater than 120kph as "orkans" which translates to hurricane.

Yes, this is what linguists call a lexical gap. You have two different words to separate two different kinds of storms that are relevant to you. We however, do not have the kind you normally call hurricane and thus only need one work. Here the term only refers to wind speed.

Still seems weird to me.... I mean we don't get hurricanes either but we wouldn't call the storm we had a hurricane.

[KWT]

well here comes the next one,forecasted gusts are expected to reach 100Mph,and considering how tightly packed the isobars are,that wouldn't really suprise me at all.

[James]

Gosh, the weather hasn't been this rough for a while.

[KWT]

just heard of a amazing report on net-weather:

North Rona now sustained winds of 97 mph !! Max gust 118 mph !




other areas have got gusts of 100mph.

(North Rona now gusting to 122mph,pressure around 957mb I believe)

[James]

[KWT]

highest gust so far is 142mph(but this was however 3,000 feet up and so isn't really the highest gust)

but that has to be one of the highest low level gusts I've seen in a very long time.I suspect the system looks like a skinny hurricane actually.

heres a image of this system,quite a classic this one.

http://www.meteoam.it/satellit/WWW/vapo ... :00:00.jpg

[P.K.]

Pressure dropped to at least 946hPa.

This image is quite good :http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/current/n1bcurr.jpg

[P.K.]

N Rona 23Z 220 94 G116KT

Even higher than before.

[Gorky]

Very impressive considering thats at sea level and not in the mountainous region. Only 2kts shy of the equivalent of a cat3 hurricane :O

[P.K.]

N Rona 00Z 220 87 G112KT



Edit - Not 122kts as I put before.

I believe the 116kt gust earlier on is the 2nd highest ever gust recorded in the UK.