The Invisible hurricane that hit Portugal.

[Thresher]

That's it? I thought a hurricane would look something more like that thing out in the Atlantic to the west of Portugal.
There is more to reading these charts than I realised.

 

[greeny]

Baled 3 inches of rainwater out of the rib this morning. Must have been quite a downpour considering it didn't seem to last for long.

 

[capnsensible]

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Rain-Spain-Falls-Mainly-Froma-Hurricane

 

[Buck Turgidson]

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Rain-Spain-Falls-Mainly-Froma-Hurricane

A lot of "predicted".

No actual observation data.

Strongest wind observed in Faro was 33kph. Beja got 35kph.

FAKE NEWS!! There was no Hurricane it's just alarmist BuxxxxxT

 

[capnsensible]

Ex-Hurricane Leslie made landfall on the coast of central Portugal near 5:30 pm EDT October 13, 2018, with top sustained winds of 70 mph, just 3 hours after being declared post-tropical. Leslie maintained hurricane status into the far Eastern Atlantic to a location where no hurricane had ever been observed: just 200 miles west of Portugal at 11 am EDT. But at 2 pm EDT Saturday, Leslie succumbed to cold 20°C (68°F) waters and the influence of a cold front overtaking it, and became a powerful extratropical storm with 70 mph winds.

 

[harry potter]

I was listening to the radio (Radio 4) this morning about the hurricane that hit Portugal, the first in centuries, >100mph winds causing devastation, speculation that it was going to head down to Morrocco and cause devastion on the way etc. I got out of bed and looked at the weather charts:
http://www.metbrief.com/EGRR.html
expecting to see a tightly wound ring of isobars over the Iberian peninsula but there was nothing! Ok, when you look at the charts now it has all gone but when I looked this morning I had the range of charts from Friday to Tuesday and there was nothing there.
How can you have a hurricane and it not show on the weather map?
Was it fake news? (just joking).

Noticed, was a bit confused, so good to know wasn't the only one. Hurricanes are advisedly unpredictable. Lucky Lisbon.

 

[Sailfree]

I was listening to the radio (Radio 4) this morning about the hurricane that hit Portugal, the first in centuries, >100mph winds causing devastation, speculation that it was going to head down to Morrocco and cause devastion on the way etc. I got out of bed and looked at the weather charts:
http://www.metbrief.com/EGRR.html
expecting to see a tightly wound ring of isobars over the Iberian peninsula but there was nothing! Ok, when you look at the charts now it has all gone but when I looked this morning I had the range of charts from Friday to Tuesday and there was nothing there.
How can you have a hurricane and it not show on the weather map?
Was it fake news? (just joking).

Not fake news!

See my thread Narrow Escape!

 

[GHA]

A lot of "predicted".

No actual observation data.

Strongest wind observed in Faro was 33kph. Beja got 35kph.

FAKE NEWS!! There was no Hurricane it's just alarmist BuxxxxxT

Screenshot from Meteorological agency of Portugal. Leslie had sting jets.
http://www.severe-weather.eu/recent...fall-of-extra-tropical-storm-leslie-oct-14th/


https://www.ipma.pt/en/otempo/obs.superficie/index-map-dia-chart.jsp#Figueira da Foz, Vila Verde

Meteorological agency of Portugal Fig Foz historical data shows peak of 176.4Km/H

FAKE NEWS!!

---- IS IT?

 

[Thresher]

Thank you GHA.
Sting jets - there we have it. The same phenomena behind the great storm of 1987. Michael Fish didn't see it on his charts so what chance do we have?
A very scary phenomena.
Thanks all.
Post concluded.

 

[alant]

Hardly fake, you just havent spoken to Dave.

It was even in the DM, so must be false news, according to some.
Apparently one non reader, who would flaggelate with stinging nettles, rather than read any DM article, flew over to Portugal at the weekend, especially to check.

 

[capnsensible]

It was even in the DM, so must be false news, according to some.
Apparrently one non reader, who would flaggelate with stinging nettles, rather than read any DM article, flew over to Poetugal at the weekend, especially to check.

 

[timmygobang]

For what it's worth, we're in Belem marina in Lisbon at the moment. Hurricane Leslie gave us a bit of a fright. We watched it on windy over the last week. The forecast changed daily, at one stage it was predicted to hit Madeira and then head out west again!

We tied down the boat and removed anything that could cause windage or fly away. Staff suggested we move the boat to another marina, but it was too late in the day to start moving, so they advised we shouldn't stay on the boat. Everyone around us at 6pm came down to their boats and were tying up their boats for Armageddon!

Sure we got bashed around a bit, but it wasn't super crazy. We watched a film and by down below, and by 11pm the winds died down and it was gone.Think I've had worse in Dover.

 

[Sailfree]

Still in Porto as Portuguese authorities have closed all Ports (except Nazare - my home port!).


Boat bouncing about on the swell in the marina.


Went to look at the swell/waves at entrance and understand why nearly all (except nazare) Portuguese ports closed.

Told to ask again at 09.00 (Tuesday) whether ports still closed.


Need to decide whether to try to do the 100Nml to Nazare tomorrow or try to get into Figiera da Foz after 60Nml.


No problem going 100Nml except some 9hrs in dark and lots of lobster pots - needed to take manual control of helm about 5 times on way here as pots right in front of boat course!!

If anyone thinks its fake news be my guest to fly out to Porto and sail back with us. The waves leaving Figeira da Foz caused real problems for the dufour 36 following us out. at one time thought I would have to do a rescue job!

 

[capnsensible]

Those pots are uncountable! We found them out to over 100m.

Have a safe trip home. :encouragement:

 

[Graham376]

For what it's worth, we're in Belem marina in Lisbon at the moment.

We're just down the road from you but ashore at Alges. No more than a fairly windy and a bit wet night, nothing like forecast. Figueira took a hit though, lots of damage.

 

[GHA]

We're just down the road from you but ashore at Alges. No more than a fairly windy and a bit wet night, nothing like forecast. Figueira took a hit though, lots of damage.

Think all the models were struggling to keep up as it kept going further north, GFS maybe more than the others but got closer in the end, this was from the Saturday 18.00 GFS model run, had it making landfall near Fig Foz >

 

[Graham376]

Need to decide whether to try to do the 100Nml to Nazare tomorrow or try to get into Figiera da Foz after 60Nml.

There's still a hazardous seas warning for that coast, still 3m seas tomorrow. Figueira can be very nasty with on-shore swell whereas Nazare is a "port of refuge". I would sit it out until conditions moderate but, if you must get back then stay offshore and head for Nazare.

 

[Wansworth]

Portuguese fishermen missing and flooding in Barcelona all linked to Leslie

 

[Sailfree]

There's still a hazardous seas warning for that coast, still 3m seas tomorrow. Figueira can be very nasty with on-shore swell whereas Nazare is a "port of refuge". I would sit it out until conditions moderate but, if you must get back then stay offshore and head for Nazare.

Back in Nazare at 03.30 Wednesday - bumpy night - crew fly back to UK on Thursday. See my post in Narrow Escape thread.