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[26] [29] Regardless of its status, Debbie produced among the lowest pressures in Europe from a post-tropical cyclone, with a pressure of 950 mbar (28 inHg) reported between Ireland and Scotland. At Malin Head in northwestern Ireland, a gust of 183 km/h (114 mph) was reported, which was the highest gust in a survey of post-tropical cyclones ...
Cyclone Xynthia hit Europe in 2010, generating 19000 megawatts of electricity from Germany's 21000 wind turbines. The electricity produced was too much for consumers to use, and prices on the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig plummeted, which resulted in the grid operators having to pay over 18 euros per megawatt-hour to offload it, costing ...
The number of Category 5 tropical cyclones that formed this year totalled to five, while 23 major tropical cyclones formed throughout the year, which was slightly below average. The accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index for 2022 (seven basins combined), as calculated by Colorado State University (CSU) was 621.2 units overall, which was below ...
A model output from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or what commonly is referred to as the ECMWF, believes that tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin could be ...
Tropical cyclones in 2024; Timeline of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season; List of Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes; List of European tropical cyclones; Hurricane Iris (1995) – Category 2 hurricane whose remnants affected Western Europe; Subtropical Storm Alpha (2020) – subtropical cyclone that also affected Portugal and Spain
A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around the world. [4] [5] The systems generally have a well-defined center which is surrounded by deep atmospheric convection and a closed wind circulation at the surface. [4]
In tropical and subtropical areas, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) rose 0.2 °C (0.36 °F) within a 50-year period, and in the North Atlantic and Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone basins, the potential destructiveness and energy of storms nearly doubled within the same duration, evidencing a clear correlation between global warming and ...
Kirk affected Europe from 8 October, a day after becoming an extratropical cyclone. After reaching its peak intensity on 4 October, with Category 4 winds of 145 mph (230 km/h), far to the east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands , [ 50 ] Kirk became an extratropical cyclone on October 7, then passed north of the Azores, before moving over ...