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12 meter waves, 110 km/h winds and lots of rain starting Tuesday night. How former Hurricane Kirk will affect the continent

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12 meter waves, 110 km/h winds and lots of rain starting Tuesday night. How former Hurricane Kirk will affect the continent

It is already an extratropical cyclone, passing over the Azores and traveling at 45 kilometers per hour. Former hurricane Kirk, which reached category 4 (out of 5), will pass a lot, but very close to Portugal. According to the latest forecasts, the closest point of its passage through the continent will be at 7 in the morning on Wednesday the 9th. Wind gusts of 110 km/h, waves of 12 meters and a lot of rain are expected, because even. Although it is no longer a powerful hurricane, Kirk will continue to be a powerful and potentially dangerous storm, according to a statement from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere.

But if this tremendous storm is expected to pass through on Wednesday, the weather will get worse starting Tuesday. At the end of the afternoon it is expected that it will begin to rain with some intensity, especially in the northern part of the country, rains that will spread throughout the continent, and that will only dissipate in the early hours of Thursday morning. . All because Storm Kirk brings a front associated with an atmospheric river.

The trajectory of the storm changed for the worse in relation to the Iberian Peninsula. The front that affected us this Sunday and Monday, coming from the North Atlantic, ‘pushed’ the hurricane further south, so it will approach the continent and will not rise in the Bay of Biscay to areas closer to the United Kingdom. who was also on alert.

The wind will be strong in the most mountainous areas of the north and center, with gusts that can reach 110 km/h. But the entire country will feel the wind brought by the storm, with gusts of up to 45 km/h from the southwest to 70 km/h, reaching 95 km/h on the coast north of Cape Carvoeiro.

Regarding maritime agitation, waves can reach a maximum height of 12 meters. The waves will also begin to be felt from the end of this Tuesday on the west coast, with southwest waves of 4 to 5 meters, which will increase to 5 to 7 meters from mid-morning on Wednesday and then gain in maximum size. The direction of the waves associated with this storm can cause impacts on the coast.

Azores had a “quiet night.” All northern districts under orange alert

IPMA has already issued yellow and orange level weather warnings for the coming days. At 1:42 p.m. the situation seemed better than in the previous hours. No southern district was under a weather alert, so no risk situation was foreseen for these regions. Six districts were under yellow alert for wind and rain (Portalegre, Santarém, Lisbon, Castelo Branco, Leiria and Coimbra) and the remaining eight, all in the north, were under orange alert: Guarda, Viseu, Aveiro, Bragança, Vila Real, Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo.

In the Azores, the western group (Flores and Corvo) was under red alert for maritime disturbances, an alert that has since been reduced to orange. For this and the Central group (Faial, Pico, Terceira, São Jorge and Graciosa), the IPMA foresees “sometimes intense precipitation, which may be accompanied by storms, and an increase in the intensity of the wind and the agitation of the sea ”.

According to the Lusa agency, the Civil Protection of the Azores defined that it would maintain a prevention device on land at least until 24 local hours (13 hours in Lisbon), due to the weather warnings, but so far the Kirk storm has caused only three incidents. .

“It was a night without any major pressures, where there was only a small incident on the island of Flores, in a small wooden stall, in the Santa Cruz Municipal Market. This small incident was detected by our team that was on the ground, deployed on the island of Flores,” said the vice president of the Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service of the Azores (SRPCBA), Bruno Nogueira, in a situation update, in Angra do Heroismo.

This morning “two more small events” were recorded: “a leaning electric pole” on the island of Faial, which is already “duly limited and in the process of correction”, and the fall of a tree in Angra do Heroísmo, on the island Third. , “with partial obstruction of the road, which has now been completely resolved.” “It was indeed a quiet night,” said Bruno Nogueira.

In the Central group, according to the IPMA Azores delegation, “gusts of up to 90 km/h and waves that could reach a significant height of eight meters (15 meters maximum height) are expected.” For the Eastern group (São Miguel and Santa María), for Tuesday, the IPMA foresees waves “that could reach six meters of significant height (12 meters maximum height).”

The remains of Hurricane Kirk caused Aemet, the Spanish meteorological institute, to put Galicia and other areas of northern Spain on alert. Much of southern France is also under alert for heavy rain. The storm should only dissipate completely on German territory.

Source: Observadora

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