Hurricane Force Winds Affect Iceland - Dec 7th 2015

rickdangerouss

Hurricane strength winds affecting Iceland and the volcanoes

Any big Earth Quakes will be hidden on the graphs because of the wind noise. It would be amazing if a volcano started around now.

http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/nr/3247

Hope we do not see international news because of this and all stay safe in Iceland.

Iancar29

A friend of mine only just landed into Reykjavik a short time ago! lol

fits

I landed into Reykjavik in the middle of a major storm two years ago. It was no fun landing that plane Id say. Utmost respect to the pilot.

Weatherproof79

Worst storm in 25 years apparently and residents of Rekyjavik have been warned to stay inside after 5pm. Driving snow and hurricane force winds just incredible

Live view of Rekyajavik http://www.livefromiceland.is/webcams/reykjavik/

Darwin

Gusts of 60m/s (134mph) expected, yikes :eek:

Nabber

If you check the model guidance, the low heads strangely north west to Iceland, slips south and heads east back towards NW Ireland in a weakened depression ready for round 2.

It's insulating at this stage

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Hurricane force winds approaching iceland

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The Icelandic Meteorological Office issued a weather warning today. There will be rapidly increasing wind and decreasing frost, first in the southern part of Iceland. East 20-25 m/s and snow in the southern part in the afternoon. Around 1900 GMT, 40 m/s (10 minutes average) were measured in Storhofdi, Vestmannaeyjar Islands, which is hurricane strenght.
Some damage has already been reported in the islands. Parts of south of Iceland, the village of Vik and some rural areas, are without electricity. The storm will gain strength later tonight and severly affect the entire country, including the capital area. Risk of snow avalanches has been reported in the Westfjords, North Iceland and the Eastfjords.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued a weather warning for today, Monday. There will be rapidly increasing wind and decreasing frost, first in the southern part of Iceland. East 20-25 m/s and snow in the southern part in the afternoon. Widely violent storm or hurricane-force winds (25-35 m/s) in the evening with sleet or snow.

Temperature around freezing point in the evening, but up to 5°C at the south coast.

Warning
Violent storm or hurricane-force winds are expected throughout most of the country
in the afternoon and evening. The magnitude of the approaching storm is so great that such conditions occur only every 10 to 20 years.

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Icelandic weather forecast

http://www.ruv.is/nyjast/vedur

JCX BXC

Looking at the TAF for KEF airport, there is TEMPO winds of 52knots Gusting 75knots forecast!

I...wouldn't like to be doing anything in Iceland this evening.

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There she blows...

Weatherproof79

40m/s mean winds is 144km/h imagine snow with that

Gaoth Laidir

Stórhöfði (low-lying) in southern Iceland had 10-minute sustained wind of 47 m/s (91 kts/169 kph) tonight. The highest gust was 52 m/s (101 kts/187 kph).

SeaBreezes

The East Iceland weather station of Hallormsstaðaháls picked up a wind-speed reading of 72.6 m/s (over 160 mph). According the Beaufort scale, wind speeds are described as ‘hurricane force’, when they hit just 32.7 m/s.

Severe winds even broke some of the anemometers used across the country, meaning that some wind-speed data are missing.

"Hurricane-force winds (i.e. ≥ 32.7 m/s) were picked up at 33 weather stations across Icel"and at 2 pm last night, mostly in the central highlands.

While the winds experienced by residents and visitors of Iceland last night were very definitely ‘hurricane force’, the weather system would not traditionally be defined as a ‘hurricane’ as it lacked certain other weather aspects associated with hurricanes, such as thunderstorms and heavy rain.

What Iceland saw last night is more accurately dubbed a ‘polar low’ or ‘Arctic depression’."

Wow

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2015/12/08/iceland_sees_double_hurricane_force_winds/

Gaoth Laidir

That is a completely misleading article. It was not a polar low, it was a normal Atlantic depression, albeit a very strong one. The strongest winds quoted at Hallormsstaðaháls (573 m amsl) were on high ground, the same some stations in the Scottish Highlands report hurricane-force winds when nowhere else does.

The strongest winds at a low-lying station that I saw were 47 m/s sustained (91 knots) at Stórhöfði (on a small island off the southwest coast) at 8 pm last night.