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During the time of Filomena's passage over the Iberian Peninsula, a powerful high-pressure system, named Anticyclone Antje by the Free University of Berlin (FUB), was centred over the United Kingdom, bringing cold air from the Arctic across the British Isles and down into the vicinity of Storm Filomena. This cold air became entrained into the ...
Hurricane Kirk, known as Storm Kirk while extratropical, was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused significant damage in portions of Western Europe after transitioning into a European windstorm.
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA: / aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə n / eye-BEER-ee-ən), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in south-western Europe.Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain [c] and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the ...
Hurricane Leslie (known as Storm Leslie [1] or Cyclone Leslie [2] while extratropical) was the strongest cyclone of tropical origin to strike the Iberian Peninsula since 1842.A large, long-lived, and very erratic tropical cyclone, Leslie was the twelfth named storm and sixth hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season. [3]
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. [3] In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas.
Iberian windstorm 13–15 February 1941 A storm made a direct hit on Lisbon while damaging winds affected the whole of Portugal. Low of 950 hPa (28 inHg), reaching winds up to 180 km/h (110 mph) in San Sebastián, Spain. It remains one of the top five most severe windstorms across Europe during the 20th century. [26] [27] October Gales
Northwestern Spain saw strong wind gusts, with coastal areas seeing large waves and wind damage. A gust of 154 kilometres per hour (42.8 m/s; 96 mph) was measured at the Estaca de Bares peninsula in Galicia. [16] A strong frontal system from the storm passed over continental Europe.
Together, this event is being named Storm Filomena by the Spanish Weather Service, AEMet. ... an atypical weather pattern will unfold over the Iberian Peninsula. Two areas of low pressure are ...