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October 16, 2018 – Hurricane Michael 's remnants reached Portugal and Spain as an extratropical cyclone. On September 12, 2019 – The remnants of Tropical Storm Gabrielle struck Ireland. Later, it struck Great Britain. September 24, 2019 – The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Humberto (2019) struck the British Isles.
During a nine-day period, from 1–9 November, Storm Quinn and Rolf dropped prolific amounts of rainfall across southwestern Europe, the vast majority of which came from Rolf, with a maximum total of 605 mm (23.8 in) of rain recorded in southern France. [90] [89] The storm caused at least $1.25 billion (2011 USD) in damages in Italy and France ...
There is no universal definition of what constitutes a windstorm in Europe, nor is there a universally accepted system of naming storms. For example, in the Western Group, consisting of the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, a storm is named if one of the meteorological agencies in those countries issues an orange warning (amber in the UK), which generally requires a likelihood of widespread ...
It might sound absurd — you don't often hear about named Atlantic storms hitting anywhere in Europe. European hurricanes are exceptionally rare — but they could become more common Skip to main ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
The biggest example of a retired hurricane name in the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane which devastated Louisiana and other southern states and killed almost 1,900 people in ...
Tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones are named by various warning centers to simplify communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches and warnings. The names are intended to reduce confusion in the event of concurrent storms in the same basin. Once storms develop sustained wind speeds of more than 33 ...
G. Hurricane Gonzalo. Hurricane Gordon (2006) Tropical Storm Grace (2009)