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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou Are Not Hallucinating -- A Hurricane Is Headed To Ireland
Dont worry. You are not losing it. Ireland is in the cone of uncertainty in that map below. Hurricane Ophelia is the 10th consecutive hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin this year. According to University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy, the last time ten consecutive storms became a hurricane was 1893. While a very interesting factoid, the elephant in the room is that Ophelia is headed to Ireland. It is rare, but not unprecedented.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/10/12/you-are-not-hallucinating-a-hurricane-is-headed-to-ireland/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/10/12/you-are-not-hallucinating-a-hurricane-is-headed-to-ireland/amp/
When I first saw this I thought it was a joke.
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You Are Not Hallucinating -- A Hurricane Is Headed To Ireland (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Oct 2017
OP
Is there that much warm water in the north atlantic to feed a hurricane?
dubyadiprecession
Oct 2017
#1
It was in the fall of 1588, when a bit of bad weather greeted the Spanish armada, ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
Oct 2017
#4
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)1. Is there that much warm water in the north atlantic to feed a hurricane?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)2. Does that not tell you global warming is for real?!
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. Not just a hurricane
A Cat3 hurricane
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,365 posts)4. It was in the fall of 1588, when a bit of bad weather greeted the Spanish armada, ...
... after it sailed around the north of Scotland and Ireland and headed south.
Bad winds.