Ophelia turned into a “rare” category 3 hurricane, the sixth major hurricane of the 2017 season, 220 miles (355 kilometers) south of the Azores, the U.S. Hurricane Ophelia | Timeline M et Eireann described the storm as the most powerful to have been this far east in the Atlantic. Met.ie. Ophelia could become the strongest post-tropical system to rake Ireland since Hurricane Debbie in 1961, which killed 18 people and stripped almost 25 percent of … The U.S. National Hurricane Service warned that Galway, Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal would be the hardest hit by Ophelia’s winds and rains. There has been some media coverage that hurricane Ophelia will impact Ireland to some degree at the start of next week.
At this stage, there is strong evidence from the weather forecast models that its remnants will track close to or even over parts of Ireland, but at present, there are still a wide spread of possible outcomes. Hurricane Emergency meeting to be held as Ireland braces itself for Hurricane Ophelia The post-tropical storm is expected to batter the west coast with gusts of up to 130kph forecast on Monday 12 October 2017.
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