Two-Fisted Storm System Pummels Iceland, British Isles
A rapid-fire pair of winter storms swept across the North Atlantic
from late last week into the weekend, bringing the most widespread flood
alerts on record for the United Kingdom and one of the lowest surface
pressures ever recorded in this part of the world.
from late last week into the weekend, bringing the most widespread flood
alerts on record for the United Kingdom and one of the lowest surface
pressures ever recorded in this part of the world.
The second and
stronger of the storms, named Dennis by the UK Met Office, bottomed out
south of Iceland with a central surface pressure estimated at 920
millibars, as noted
by weather.com. Only one North Atlantic cyclone is known to have been
stronger: a hyper-intense 913-mb cyclone on January 11, 1993, near
Scotland’s Shetland Islands. That storm tore apart super oil tanker
Braer on a rocky shoal, causing a massive oil spill.