Heads Up. Hurricane Ophelia

Is this the same Express that promugated that last winter was to be the worst for 100 years?

And that people would be dying in the street due to the summer heatwave.

Well - it MUST be right this time.............
 
From my amatuer meterology I can't see anything for that severe for Sunday.

Next Wed/Thursday according to the GFS is breezy but that is a way off yet.

https://goo.gl/ZRKMg8

Don't worry there won't be a Hurricane :p
 
Yes - I couldn't find any reference to it either - so you're right - it might have been unavoidable.
I'm still going to wonder though! :-)
 
Glayva said:
So are you suggesting that no one should sail in the North Atlantic between June and December?
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Athena suggested that the casualty might haven started late in September. Until then it had been a hyperactive hurricane season. On August 9, NOAA released their final outlook for the season, raising their predictions to 14–19 named storms, though retaining 5–9 hurricanes and 2–5 major hurricanes.
 
franksingleton said:
Athena suggested that the casualty might haven started late in September. Until then it had been a hyperactive hurricane season. On August 9, NOAA released their final outlook for the season, raising their predictions to 14–19 named storms, though retaining 5–9 hurricanes and 2–5 major hurricanes.
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OK maybe not Bermuda. But it is possible the boat and crew left a safe port in safe weather bound for Ireland prior to Ophelia appearing in the forecast. I don't understand why people have to assume the worst of everyone else!

The East Coast forum attitude has changed. No wonder so many who made it what it was have left and gone to other social media. Maybe it has run its course?
 
Athene V30 said:
OK maybe not Bermuda. But it is possible the boat and crew left a safe port in safe weather bound for Ireland prior to Ophelia appearing in the forecast. I don't understand why people have to assume the worst of everyone else!

The East Coast forum attitude has changed. No wonder so many who made it what it was have left and gone to other social media. Maybe it has run its course?
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The questions remain. Was the casualty sailing locally and if so, given the long warning of this storm, why? If he was coming across the pond then was he not aware of the NOAA prediction? By 30 September we had had 13 Atlantic tropical storms the last 9 of which had become hurricanes, 5 of them major (category 3-5). An on-line assessment was that it was a hyperactive season.

Whether he was sailing locally or transatlantic it is fair to ask why.

PS. I speak as someone who has and still does go to sea when strong winds are expected but do so after a fair amount of thought about all the options and possibilities.
 
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