This reverse flow carried many small boats upstream and onto the river banks leaving them high and dry when the wind changed direction and the river dropped almost equally as suddenly. This was partly based on the recorded maximum output of the Lower Bohernabreena Reservoir on the river. It made landfall in Dooega on Achill Island, Co. Mayo off the west coast of Ireland on the 16th of September but passed back out into the Atlantic before tracking along the coast of Scotland and then Norway and finally dissipating over Russia (Fig 1). Hourly wind data and other parameters were analysed by event. There were extensive power outages with some areas being without power for up to four days as well as extensive disruption to transport including shipping on the Irish Sea. Record rainfall was also reported in both England and Wales as the centre tracked through the English Channel. The storm with high winds and heavy rain was one of the worst in living memory. © 2012 The Author(s). Firstly it will assess the generation and tracks of … Hurricane Charley - 1986 Hurricane Charley arrived over Ireland at the end of August 1986 and was one of the worst storms to ever hit Ireland. This was the lowest pressure recorded for this hurricane itself despite the fact that by this stage it was a Category 1 at best. Hurricane Debbie initially formed as a storm west of Africa on the 7th September 1961 and immediately started moving westwards and intensifying and was given hurricane status on the 11th of September and quickly reached Category 3 intensity with maximum wind speeds of 195 km/h. Other wikis Commons: Charley images Hurricane Charley was the first of four individual hurricanes to impact or strike Florida during 2004, along with Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the United States. The gale force winds and heavy rain which lashed the east coast caused damage estimated to run possibly into millions of pounds. We are a community of more than 103,000 authors and editors from 3,291 institutions spanning 160 countries, including Nobel Prize winners and some of the world’s most-cited researchers. One of the key results that has emerged from the detailed examination of the impact of Hurricane Debbie and the tail-end of Hurricane Charley is that each had its own unique character. Loss of life and injuries can be more severe and greater than that of mid-latitude storms and the potential scale of damage and destruction can be very significant whether through wind damage or flooding or a combination of both. This could have a devastating impact not just on Ireland but probably on other parts of Europe as well. This depression was no longer at hurricane strength when it crossed the southern third of Ireland across Wales and the midlands of the UK before finally dissipating in the North Sea near Denmark on the 25th of August (Fig. All the above mentioned stations in the Rep. of Ireland and Malin Head and Valentia Observatory were and still are all time record gusts. The track of Hurricane Charley over Ireland, 25th August 1986. Charley will be remembered as one of the worst storms to hit the country in living memory. It was the 3rd storm and 2nd hurricane of the season. This approach will also help to provide the first meaningful estimates of the financial cost of these two events on Ireland. Login to your personal dashboard for more detailed statistics on your publications. Social and sporting fixtures were also cancelled. Part of the hay crop was blown away if harvested and still uncollected in the fields. On land the lowest pressures recorded for Debbie were in Co. Mayo at 963 hPa [7]. The return period of this flood event on the Dodder was estimated to be in excess of 100 years [27]. In addition, the low-lying station at Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow recorded 200mm of rainfall, setting a new Irish record for a one day total at low altitude. This landslide although much bigger than the other three still only represented 0.14% of the total catchment, the other three barely reaching 0.01% of the catchment [31]. In addition maximum 10 minute mean wind speed records were set for meteorological stations at Claremorris, Mullingar and Shannon Airport and still stand. Consideration must also be given to rising sea-surface temperatures in the tropics and how this will gradually enlarge the areas lattitudinally where hurricanes could potentially form. Cold 2nd half to Winter 2018-19? On this day: Hurricane Charley blows into Ireland in 1986 Hurricane Charley arrived into Ireland on August 25, 1986. Here's a look at some of the worst storms that battered Ireland. The torrential rain from Charley also triggered three very small scale landslides and one slightly larger one in the Cloghoge Valley in the Wicklow Mts., felling trees and stripping the bark from those left standing as the debris slides tracked through forested areas.