Comments on: What Was Kyrill? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: George http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3800 George Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:47:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3800 Storms such as Kyrill occur here in the Northwest as well. Though storms as strong as Kyrill are not frequent here in the Northwest or in Europe. There are many more that have the impact comparable that of cat 3 hurricanes on costal and inland towns. Here is a reference to a site that has some data on the history of such storms in the Northwest. http://oregonstate.edu/~readw/ Cheers George Storms such as Kyrill occur here in the Northwest as well. Though storms as strong as Kyrill are not frequent here in the Northwest or in Europe. There are many more that have the impact comparable that of cat 3 hurricanes on costal and inland towns. Here is a reference to a site that has some data on the history of such storms in the Northwest.

http://oregonstate.edu/~readw/

Cheers
George

]]> By: llewelly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3799 llewelly Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:51:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3799 If you visit my favorite ESRL link you can see the area over the Arctic Circumpolar Current has average sea level pressue of about 990 mb year round. It has many strong extra-tropical cyclones. Unfortunately I don't know how strong. The GFS and the other models show cyclones below 960mb like this at least once a week, but I don't think modeled cyclone pressures are high quality estimates. The wikipedia page on extra tropical cyclones mentions a 928 mb cyclone that passed between Greenland and Iceland - but I suspect the ACC does better. If you visit my favorite ESRL link you can see the area over the Arctic Circumpolar Current has average sea level pressue of about 990 mb year round. It has many strong extra-tropical cyclones. Unfortunately I don’t know how strong. The GFS and the other models show cyclones below 960mb like this at least once a week, but I don’t think modeled cyclone pressures are high quality estimates. The wikipedia page on extra tropical cyclones mentions a 928 mb cyclone that passed between Greenland and Iceland – but I suspect the ACC does better.

]]> By: Mark UK http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3798 Mark UK Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:37:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3798 The winds were not sustained but gusts... I lived in Germany for nearly a year and only ever heard "orkan" used to describe a hurricane. Alternatively it was used to point out that the expected winds will have gusts of hurricane strenght. I think the word cyclone confused a few people... The winds were not sustained but gusts… I lived in Germany for nearly a year and only ever heard “orkan” used to describe a hurricane. Alternatively it was used to point out that the expected winds will have gusts of hurricane strenght. I think the word cyclone confused a few people…

]]> By: bigTom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3797 bigTom Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:38:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2007/01/22/what-was-kyrill/#comment-3797 Then you have the phenonena of tropical cyclones making the transition to extra-tropical cyclones. I.E. a hurricane often merges with frontal system(s) as it reaches the higher latitudes. Then you have the phenonena of tropical cyclones making the transition to extra-tropical cyclones. I.E. a hurricane often merges
with frontal system(s) as it reaches the higher latitudes.

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