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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 ...
As cold air remains settled across a large part of Europe, an atypical weather pattern will unfold over the Iberian Peninsula. Two areas of low pressure are forecast to follow one after the other ...
While the most suffering was inflicted on municipalities near the city of Valencia, the storms unleashed their fury over huge swaths of the south and eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula.
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]
October 28, 1996 – As an extratropical storm, Hurricane Lili moved across Ireland and the United Kingdom, producing winds up to 148 km/h (92 mph) in Swansea in Wales. The storm left thousands without power and damaged about 500 cottages. A storm surge flooded areas along the River Thames, and high waves nearly grounded an oil rig in Somerset.
Storm Monica is forecast to impact the Iberian Peninsula with heavy rain and strong winds. Portugal's Meteorological Agency (IPMA) issued a severe red coastal event warning from 6pm 9 March - 6am 10 March, where waves from the west/northwest with 7 to 8 metres (20-25 ft) of significant height, reaching a maximum height of 14 metres (45 ft).
The storm then went on to bring heavy wind and rain to the Iberian Peninsula. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] The outer bands of this storm were also related to the supercells in northern France and southern England which produced at least nine tornadoes, including the intense Bihucourt tornado .
The storm weakened at sea and made an extremely rare landfall on the Iberian Peninsula as a tropical depression on 11 October. Vince was one of only three tropical or subtropical cyclones to do so, alongside the 1842 Spanish hurricane and Subtropical Storm Alpha of 2020 .