Breton Storm

[Roberto]

Belle Ile signal station recorded a peak gust of 185km/h, it is said that they have anemometers with a maximum reading of 100kt

This was in Quiberon

 

[Malish]

any web cams out there which are worth watching from an arm chair?

 

[GHA]

any web cams out there which are worth watching from an arm chair?

Links to most of them on windy.com with history

 

[zoidberg]

I'm wondering what is the French/Breton colloquial expression for 'blowing dogs off chains'.....

 

[Roberto]

I'm wondering what is the French/Breton colloquial expression for 'blowing dogs off chains'.....

one is "vent à écorner les boeufs", a wind pulling horns away from beefs

 

[Poignard]

Southeast France on red alert as Storm Alex wreaks havoc

 

[DownWest]

While we got a hefty alert here (bit south of Rochefort) it was a bit of a non-event. Launched a boat at Minimes, La Rochelle inn the afternoon. Wind a bit breezy, but nothing to avoid going out in. Rain occasionally hard and hailed on us us while driving driving up to LR, but held off for the rest of the afternoon.

 

[zoidberg]

"......after a night of destruction in Morbihan, Brittany, with firefighters attending more than 80 calls overnight for fallen trees, roofs being blown off and electric cables being blown over, as record winds of 186 kph were recorded at Belle-Ile-en-Mer and up to 157 kph on the île de Groix. "

That is, in real money, over 116mph and, er, um, almost 100mph....

Blowing more than 'horns off beefs' in those islands.

 

[johnalison]

Well done the forecasters. More than two days warning. Compare to the Fastnet in 1979.

 

[zoidberg]

Aye, 'johnalison', but I believe they didn't forecast the 'explosive deepening' cell which developed suddenly off the Cap Frehel/StMalo coast, which then grew in size and intensity during the night of Thursday/Friday, and the centre of which then meandered around Guernsey before wandering back south and becoming re-absorbed into the main circulation of Storm Alex.

i believe that's an isssue of the computer-run 'control points' or granularity. The feature's genesis was so small, the computers didn't pick it up. Perhaps the human forecasters at Jersey/Guernsey/Dinard airports spotted anomalous baro-readings and flagged up something was happening on their TAFs - I don't know.

 

[GHA]

Aye, 'johnalison', but I believe they didn't forecast the 'explosive deepening' cell which developed suddenly off the Cap Frehel/StMalo coast, which th

Monday mornings gfs grib showed something nasty going through which got worse with each new model run.

 

[Sybarite]

This going to hurt!

The Belle-Ile gusts were 100 knots. The previous record was 87 knots.

 

[Lightwave395]

Going down to Arzal Wednesday to see how my boat survived...

 

[Roberto]

AFAIK no serious incident.
A Mini650 fell off its cradle at La Trinité, and a finger came loose with attached a cat and a 37ish boat, ending on the oyster beds downriver. Everywhere endless foresails that unrolled and were shred into pieces, as usual.

 

[Poignard]

AFAIK no serious incident.
A Mini650 fell off its cradle at La Trinité, and a finger came loose with attached a cat and a 37ish boat, ending on the oyster beds downriver. Everywhere endless foresails that unrolled and were shred into pieces, as usual.

Also a yacht knocked off its cradle at La Turballe despite extra precautions taken.

 

[doris]

any web cams out there which are worth watching from an arm chair?

, Raz du Seine always a nice watch