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Post by JohnV on Sept 25, 2022 15:55:54 GMT
I have just been watching tv reports from Newfoundland and the Maritimes in Canada.
They have been hit by a truly massive storm 931 mb which is record breaking deep.
some of the destruction they are showing from Port aux Basques is horrendous
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Post by greenman on Sept 25, 2022 15:59:29 GMT
Looks a bit grim. Though I can never understand the need for some idiot reporter standing in the middle of it to show how bad it is.
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Post by patty on Sept 25, 2022 16:01:32 GMT
that is scary .. I gotta friend living over there must check how she is
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Post by patty on Sept 25, 2022 16:02:10 GMT
Looks a bit grim. Though I can never understand the need for some idiot reporter standing in the middle of it to show how bad it is. suppose it ticks that 'real life reporting' box
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Post by Telemachus on Sept 25, 2022 18:57:58 GMT
I have just been watching tv reports from Newfoundland and the Maritimes in Canada.
They have been hit by a truly massive storm 931 mb which is record breaking deep.
some of the destruction they are showing from Port aux Basques is horrendous
931 is astonishing. Anything below 950 is very rare.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 25, 2022 19:08:57 GMT
I have just been watching tv reports from Newfoundland and the Maritimes in Canada.
They have been hit by a truly massive storm 931 mb which is record breaking deep.
some of the destruction they are showing from Port aux Basques is horrendous
931 is astonishing. Anything below 950 is very rare.
When I heard that figure being quoted I went and did a bit of looking up, there has been two records of pressure below that in the UK
both in the 1880's 927mb in Belfast in 1886 and 925.6 near Creiff in 1884 !!!
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Post by rockdodger on Sept 25, 2022 21:06:40 GMT
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Post by Telemachus on Sept 25, 2022 21:44:26 GMT
Yes in the tropics you can get very low pressure in the eye of a cyclone, but below 950 in temperate latitudes is unusual. The altimeters in our AS332L fleet only went down to 950mb (hPa in modern-speak) and we only got close once on QNH. However because we used to fly approaches on QFE and Aberdeen has an elevation of 210’ (7hPa) we did have problems with that on several occasions, and eventually re-equipped the fleet with different altimeters.
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Post by rockdodger on Sept 25, 2022 21:56:18 GMT
I used to quite like flying in the Super Puma over the Sikorski S76, until their tragic accidents, I don't know if they are back in use in the North Sea oil fields, but there are none left flying to the North Australian offshore oil fields now.
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Post by Telemachus on Sept 25, 2022 22:02:34 GMT
I used to quite like flying in the Super Puma over the Sikorski S76, until their tragic accidents, I don't know if they are back in use in the North Sea oil fields, but there are none left flying to the North Australian offshore oil fields now. No the Super Puma, being an early 80s design, has been put out to grass. Now it is the mediums such as the AW189, H175 etc, in part because each offshore installation now has fewer people on board, so the heavy helicopters make less sense. And what heavies there are tend to be that flying tractor the S92. My lovely EC225s unfortunately fell out of favour after an entire rotor head fell off, which to be fair isn’t a good look.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 25, 2022 22:29:54 GMT
931 is astonishing. Anything below 950 is very rare.
When I heard that figure being quoted I went and did a bit of looking up, there has been two records of pressure below that in the UK
both in the 1880's 927mb in Belfast in 1886 and 925.6 near Creiff in 1884 !!!
just a little note about these extremely rare events in the 1880's, I was talking to peterboat about this and wondering what might have caused such extreme storms.
It seems odd that they should both have occurred in just that short time span.
He commented "wasn't Krakatoa about then" we checked and it was, 1883 .... that was certainly big enough to have had an effect on climate for a few years !
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 26, 2022 6:36:36 GMT
I used to quite like flying in the Super Puma over the Sikorski S76, until their tragic accidents, I don't know if they are back in use in the North Sea oil fields, but there are none left flying to the North Australian offshore oil fields now. No the Super Puma, being an early 80s design, has been put out to grass. Now it is the mediums such as the AW189, H175 etc, in part because each offshore installation now has fewer people on board, so the heavy helicopters make less sense. And what heavies there are tend to be that flying tractor the S92. My lovely EC225s unfortunately fell out of favour after an entire rotor head fell off, which to be fair isn’t a good look.
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Post by metanoia on Sept 26, 2022 19:58:39 GMT
When I heard that figure being quoted I went and did a bit of looking up, there has been two records of pressure below that in the UK
both in the 1880's 927mb in Belfast in 1886 and 925.6 near Creiff in 1884 !!!
just a little note about these extremely rare events in the 1880's, I was talking to peterboat about this and wondering what might have caused such extreme storms.
It seems odd that they should both have occurred in just that short time span.
He commented "wasn't Krakatoa about then" we checked and it was, 1883 .... that was certainly big enough to have had an effect on climate for a few years !
More than a bit odd.... Don't they say there's no such thing as a coincidence? How IS peterboat?
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Post by JohnV on Sept 26, 2022 21:46:08 GMT
just a little note about these extremely rare events in the 1880's, I was talking to peterboat about this and wondering what might have caused such extreme storms.
It seems odd that they should both have occurred in just that short time span.
He commented "wasn't Krakatoa about then" we checked and it was, 1883 .... that was certainly big enough to have had an effect on climate for a few years !
More than a bit odd.... Don't they say there's no such thing as a coincidence? How IS peterboat ? He's fine, just very busy and not been on line much
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Post by patty on Sept 27, 2022 7:09:48 GMT
just a little note about these extremely rare events in the 1880's, I was talking to peterboat about this and wondering what might have caused such extreme storms.
It seems odd that they should both have occurred in just that short time span.
He commented "wasn't Krakatoa about then" we checked and it was, 1883 .... that was certainly big enough to have had an effect on climate for a few years !
More than a bit odd.... Don't they say there's no such thing as a coincidence? How IS peterboat ? would think events like Krakatoa impact on weather for a few years
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