Britain hit by hurricane Ophelia.

Cap'n Mike

Cap'n Mike

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Nothing like the poor souls on the American east coast and many of the West Indies islands, but today Britain, mainly the north was hit by the remains of hurricane Ophelia. She battered our west coast with winds up to 70 mph (a mere puff I hear you say) but she also brought dust from the Sahara and smoke from bush fires in Portugal and the sky turned red. I took this of the sun when walking our dog this morning. No filters involved, just what it looked like, quite dark.........

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This is the damage.... but the joke is that they are reporting that we in the South east had the hottest October day...while the rest of the west of the country, and Wales and Ireland had Storm Ophelia... not the case.. we had no hot sunny day... we had huge high winds, although no damage that I know of here where I live, thank goodness... but we certainly had no sun nor heat.... and also there are a lot of roadside trees blown down

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4986150/Eye-100mph-Storm-Ophelia-batters-Britain.html



Over our skies tonight we had the colour of deep Gold due to the Sahara winds coming over from Spain..
 

Good grief, that was a really odd storm, what a shame. 30 years!

Holly, The Mail publishes the most amazing photos! I know not all of them were from The Mail, but when you send articles from them, they're always terrific. (I saved one of a lightening strike over the Thames a while back). I'm glad you weren't affected but sorry for those who were.
 
A hurricane is, by definition, a tropical storm. Since the UK is not in the tropics it can never experience a hurricane.

To be classed as "hurricane force" winds must reach a sustained speed of 75mph.

Those only occurred in a few very espoused places like headlands and mountain tops, though there have been gusts of well over that speed.

In fairness to those still digging themselves out in Puerto Rico, let's not gild the lily, this is now a severe North Atlantic winter storm.

However, having spent the night listening to my roof being lifted up and then slammed down again, luckily in the right place, I can testify to the fact that the breeze is a mite fresh!
 
Ben Nevis makes the cut. The wind wasn't blowing 75 mph when I was there, but it was windy enough as well as being cold and rainy. I've been on 14,000' peaks in Colorado when the weather was positively balmy.
 
Big Horn said:
Ben Nevis makes the cut. The wind wasn't blowing 75 mph when I was there, but it was windy enough as well as being cold and rainy. I've been on 14,000' peaks in Colorado when the weather was positively balmy.
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That is the best time for peak climbing. Storms can be quite nasty at that altitude. I lived in Longmont and had a full view of Longs Peak from our front window. Never topped it but my kids both did, and some others further west in the mountains.
 
BobF said:
That is the best time for peak climbing. Storms can be quite nasty at that altitude. I lived in Longmont and had a full view of Longs Peak from our front window. Never topped it but my kids both did, and some others further west in the mountains.
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Autumn is definitely the best time. The rule in summer is to be off the summit by noon. Later, however, daily thunderstorms cease to be a problem. I was never on Long's Peak, but I did reach the summit of Mt. Elbert. That was an easy and pleasant ramble.

I could never live in humid country again. My eastern limit is the hundredth meridian so I can stay in Stephen Long's Great American Desert.
 
70 mph winds, rain, etc. may not be technically a hurricane, but it's got to be something. My meteorology is pretty bad. I often wondered what happened to our ( I'm in the USA) hurricanes when they went out to sea. They are gigantic weather systems that just don't evaporate once the get by our East Coast. They may not be blowing the shingles off of roofs, but they do carry wast amounts of moisture. Instead of a hurricane, may a "RAINicane".
 
Well now this is all kinds of strange. I'm sitting here waiting for Hurricane Ophelia's rains to hit starting tomorrow... ☔⛈️ so I put it in search to see if anyone else here on the east coast mentioned it. And I see this thread from 2017! I didn't remember another named Ophelia... or that it hit the east coast of the US. I didn't even realize that they reused names... how strange is that?!

Anyhow, take cover if she's coming your way, too... here we were so happy that Lee turned away that ol' Ophelia kind of came sneaking up. I live in a river town, so keeping my 🤞.
 

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