{"id":1547,"date":"2018-09-17T03:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2018-09-17T03:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:37:51","slug":"2018-09-17-former-hurricane-to-hit-uk-ireland-esc-european-windstorm-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/2018\/09\/17\/2018-09-17-former-hurricane-to-hit-uk-ireland-esc-european-windstorm-update\/","title":{"rendered":"2018.09.17 &#8211; Former Hurricane to hit UK, Ireland: ESC European Windstorm Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Forecaster: LH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former Hurricane &#8220;HELENE&#8221;, currently located to the southwest of Ireland with a central pressure of 987 hPa and peak wind gusts of around 120km\/h, is expected to move across the British Isles today.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to earlier forecasts, this latest forecast run suggests that the storm will be considerably weaker and will likely pose minimal risks to the areas it crosses.\u00a0<strong>Ireland<\/strong> will be reached first, especially the western coast; peak storm gusts may reach 90 or 100km\/h. The storm field is later expected to cross the southern <strong>UK<\/strong>, where storm gusts should not exceed 70km\/h in most places. Highest wind speeds will be observed at exposed locations and at the coast.<br \/>\nLater, the wind field of former hurricane HELENE may also stripe the coast of the\u00a0<strong>Netherlands<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Denmark<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Norway<\/strong>; however, here, too, peak gusts should not exceed about 85km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the ESC European Windstorm Overview and the Storm Warnings and Watches:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018.09.17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2005\" src=\"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018.09.17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018.09.17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2006\" src=\"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018.09.17-1024x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This forecast is solely for informative purposes and though is done to the best of the forecaster\u2019s ability, no warranty is given for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forecaster: LH The former Hurricane &#8220;HELENE&#8221;, currently located to the southwest of Ireland with a central pressure of 987 hPa and peak wind gusts of around 120km\/h, is expected to move across the British Isles today. Compared to earlier forecasts, this latest forecast run suggests that the storm will be considerably weaker and will likely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/2018\/09\/17\/2018-09-17-former-hurricane-to-hit-uk-ireland-esc-european-windstorm-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018.09.17 &#8211; Former Hurricane to hit UK, Ireland: ESC European Windstorm Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-severe-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milk-weather.org\/MILK-now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}