Salty John
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Sorry, not true. There is more to a hurricane than wind strength.
Are the strongest winds usually in autumn?
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Uricanejack
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Actualy the Salty chap is correct.
There is a difference between "a Huricane" which is a name for tropical revolving storm in the North Atlantic
And "Huricane force" which is a Beufort force 12 and the point at which it is no longer possible to estimate wind strenght from the sea state and is taken as being 64knot or above.
While Huricane Force winds are ocasionaly expierienced in the UK. Huricanes are not. The sea tempreture to sustain them is no longer there and they have recurved and transformed into a severe north atlantic depresion or cyclone. not to be confused with The "Cyclones" which is what a TRS is known as in the Indian Ocean.
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KellysEye
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>without which, Spain & N.Europe would be the target
We were in Portugal in the winter of 2009/10 and a tropical storm killed people in Madeira, the eastern edge passed over us seriously shaking the boat, then it killed people in France. One has also hit the Canaries, it's rare and but it does happen. Then there was the hurricane that hit the UK on October 15 1987, Michael Fish became famous when he said it wouldn't happen.
We were in Portugal in the winter of 2009/10 and a tropical storm killed people in Madeira, the eastern edge passed over us seriously shaking the boat, then it killed people in France. One has also hit the Canaries, it's rare and but it does happen. Then there was the hurricane that hit the UK on October 15 1987, Michael Fish became famous when he said it wouldn't happen.
Greenheart
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Hmm...I did wonder, when SimonJK of this parish, said that the "storm of the century" described by other sources as arriving in a few days from now, needed explaining - from which I understood, it won't live up to that grand and terrible description...
...sounds familiarly Fishy, doesn't it?
I can't remember how moored boats and those stored ashore, fared during the '87 autumn storm. Mine was in the garage (which didn't fall down). Was it chaos amongst the moorings?
...sounds familiarly Fishy, doesn't it?
I can't remember how moored boats and those stored ashore, fared during the '87 autumn storm. Mine was in the garage (which didn't fall down). Was it chaos amongst the moorings?