The easterly finally loses its grip as Zoey moves in

[xmetman]

Here's the forecast evolution for low Zoey from the Met Office.

A tight enough gradient on the bent back occlusion for any time of the year across the NW of Ireland let alone June.

The GFS has a very similar solution.

[xmetman]

Very similar although the cold front seems to be more active at 06 UTC.

[Steve Jackson]

So Low Zoey has been named storm Hector, the latest named storm on record; the previous latest storm of the season was storm Katie 25th to 28th March 2018.

Steve J

[xmetman]

It looks like this was yet another storm that was named by Met  Eireann. 

As far as as I can see the Met Office have only named three storms this season (A,C,& E) the other seven were named by the Irish, French and Americans.

[Steve Jackson]

Sorry, storm Katie was in 2016, of course, not 2018!

[xmetman]

I was looking back at the records for the 14th of June to see just what other severe low's they've been since 1871 - the answer is very few - and none match the forecast severity of this one.

The nearest one that I could find was the 14th June 1908.

[xmetman]

Here it is in a bit more detail from the 6 hour reanalysis data

Still no match for Hector née Zoey which looks like it will be unusually vigorous

[Lacunae]

Trausti Jonsson details some June stonkers near Iceland on his blog (in Icelandic) https://trj.blog.is/blog/trj/ 959.6 hPa in 1983!

[xmetman]

Not a mention of 1908 but I suppose it didn't affect Iceland.

Icelandic is some language!

[xmetman]

It's rare to see Cairngorm not on top of the highest gust table but the Bealach Na Ba topped it at 05 UTC

[Freddie]

I presume the final column in the table is beaufort force.  I didn't know there was a F13 and F14.  Every day's a school day....

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[John Hall]

One needs to bear in mind that the Irish and UK met offices have only been naming storms for a few years, Still, there's no doubt that such an intense Low at this time of year is very unusual.

[xmetman]

I don't know where I picked up the extended Beaufort scale from, but here's a graphic about it that I found in a quick Google search.

No doubt you already found something about it otherwise you'd be saying how wrong I got it.

[Freddie]

On Thursday, 14 June 2018 13:41:09 UTC+1, xmetman wrote:

I don't know where I picked up the extended Beaufort scale from, but here's a graphic about it that I found in a quick Google search.

No doubt you already found something about it otherwise you'd be saying how wrong I got it.

I haven't looked.  I guessed you had found out about it somehwere and were using it because of that.  All I was saying was that I hadn't come across it before.