Hurricane BILL

Tactical

Looks like they won't get blown off the fence this evening

Many thanks to M.T. for the updates.

Raining steadily but not heavy in West Limerick at the moment and has been for the last hour or so.

maquiladora

That rain youre seeing on the radar now isnt even the heavy stuff. The heaviest rain wont be coming in till about 1am. Northwest and south will be worst hit by that.

kerry1960

Met Eireann called it right , a isolated pockets of heavier rain but otherwise a non event .

yansnow

light rain just started in dublin wind picking up as well.:D

Tactical

Wind has picked up a little in West Limerick.

yansnow

have a look at dat look pretty nice http://www.met.ie/forecasts/3hour.asp

karlog

I'm dissapointed will this so called storm get any better?

Joe Public

karlog wrote: »

I'm dissapointed will this so called storm get any better?

This might keep you going

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5tx4Pu8

Redsunset

Joe Public wrote: »

This might keep you going

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5tx4Pu8

great vid there,how do they withstand the force.wouldn't like to be livin in those houses at the end

MetEireann

Hurricane Bill


Through the night of Tuesday, August 25th, an active weather system crossed Ireland producing about 10mm of rain in most places, but between 20mm and 25mm in parts of the south and west. A heavy night’s rain, but nothing exceptional. However this weather system was the remnants of a major hurricane, Hurricane Bill, the first Atlantic Hurricane of the 2009 season.

The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1st and normally ends on November 30th, although some recent years have seen hurricanes in December and even into January. Bill is in fact the second named tropical storm this year, with Ana its predecessor; Ana, however did not reach hurricane strength. The generic name for this type of weather system is a tropical cyclone; once such a system reaches tropical storm strength it is given a name, from an alphabetical list. This list, which repeats every six years, is decided upon by the World Meteorological Organization, with the names alternating between male and female. However when a hurricane is especially destructive its name is “retired” from the list and never used again.

Hurricane Bill originated from a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa on August 12th, developing into a tropical cyclone near the Cape Verde islands by August 15th It tracked west-northwestwards, strengthening into a tropical storm and then into a major Category Four Hurricane by August 17th. (Hurricanes are graded in strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale, ranging from Category One to Category Five). As Bill passed between Bermuda and the east coast of the USA it was downgraded to a tropical storm, later clipping the southern coast of Nova Scotia before making landfall over the very south of Newfoundland. There were two deaths attributed to Bill in the US; both from people swept from coastal rocks by the large waves generated by the storm.

Hurricane Bill lost its tropical characteristics when it moved northwards through the Atlantic over cooler waters, but these systems can still carry a lot of moisture, a legacy of their tropical origins, so when their remnants reach western Europe they can still produce some heavy rain.

Tropical cyclones develop over large bodies of warm water in the area of the Atlantic known as the doldrums, about 10° north of the Equator. These systems require sea temperatures of 26C or greater to develop, and they carry heat and energy to more temperate latitudes. So, while their effects can be devastating, they also help address the earth’s thermal equilibrium, by moving large amounts of energy polewards from equatorial parts.

The peak hurricane period is from mid August to the end of October, and reports from the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami are closely monitored in Met Éireann’s Glasnevin forecast office throughout this period. Hurricane Claudette, the third of the 2009 season, was a very short-lived and relatively weak storm in the Gulf of Mexico which made landfall in western Florida and died out over Alabama.

Blame it on the

MetEireann wrote: »

Hurricane Bill


Through the night of Tuesday, August 25th, an active weather system crossed Ireland producing about 10mm of rain in most places, but between 20mm and 25mm in parts of the south and west. A heavy night’s rain, but nothing exceptional. However this weather system was the remnants of a major hurricane, Hurricane Bill, the first Atlantic Hurricane of the 2009 season.

The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1st and normally ends on November 30th, although some recent years have seen hurricanes in December and even into January. Bill is in fact the second named tropical storm this year, with Ana its predecessor; Ana, however did not reach hurricane strength. The generic name for this type of weather system is a tropical cyclone; once such a system reaches tropical storm strength it is given a name, from an alphabetical list. This list, which repeats every six years, is decided upon by the World Meteorological Organization, with the names alternating between male and female. However when a hurricane is especially destructive its name is “retired” from the list and never used again.

Hurricane Bill originated from a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa on August 12th, developing into a tropical cyclone near the Cape Verde islands by August 15th It tracked west-northwestwards, strengthening into a tropical storm and then into a major Category Four Hurricane by August 17th. (Hurricanes are graded in strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale, ranging from Category One to Category Five). As Bill passed between Bermuda and the east coast of the USA it was downgraded to a tropical storm, later clipping the southern coast of Nova Scotia before making landfall over the very south of Newfoundland. There were two deaths attributed to Bill in the US; both from people swept from coastal rocks by the large waves generated by the storm.

Hurricane Bill lost its tropical characteristics when it moved northwards through the Atlantic over cooler waters, but these systems can still carry a lot of moisture, a legacy of their tropical origins, so when their remnants reach western Europe they can still produce some heavy rain.

Tropical cyclones develop over large bodies of warm water in the area of the Atlantic known as the doldrums, about 10° north of the Equator. These systems require sea temperatures of 26C or greater to develop, and they carry heat and energy to more temperate latitudes. So, while their effects can be devastating, they also help address the earth’s thermal equilibrium, by moving large amounts of energy polewards from equatorial parts.

The peak hurricane period is from mid August to the end of October, and reports from the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami are closely monitored in Met Éireann’s Glasnevin forecast office throughout this period. Hurricane Claudette, the third of the 2009 season, was a very short-lived and relatively weak storm in the Gulf of Mexico which made landfall in western Florida and died out over Alabama.

Many thanks for the history lesson Met but with all due respect I would rather read your thoughts on Bill's evil/grumpy twin who has not yet passed us by.

adamski8

looks like met eireann were right all along eh!

karlog

Whats this about an evil twin i'm hearing?

howlinwolf

its seems met eirean where right all along.......non event,as for bills evil twin it looks like even more of a damp squid than ex bill.....more like bills deprived twin

Min

Yeah Met Eireann did a good job with the forecast, all in all just another typical rain event for summer 2009.

Some of the weather last week (flooding in county Kilkenny) and last weekend (flooding in some western counties) was far worse.