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5. Good and bad aspects of the forecasts for the event
6. Additional material
Status: Ongoing analysis Material from: Linus
Discussed in the following Daily reports:
http://intra.ecmwf.int/daily/d/dreport/2013/10/23/sc/
http://intra.ecmwf.int/daily/d/dreport/2013/10/24/sc/
http://intra.ecmwf.int/daily/d/dreport/2013/10/25/sc/
http://intra.ecmwf.int/daily/d/dreport/2013/10/28/sc/
1. Impact
On the 28 October a wind storm hit north-western Europe. In total 14 people were killed across Europe (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24705734). The main affected countries where France, UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In Denmark the higher ever wind gust (for Denmark) was measured on Kegnäs on Als (53 m/s).
2. Description of the event
Satellite images from yr.no valid 9,12 and 18 UTC on the 28 October.
2.X Denmark
The figures above show the maximum mean (10 minutes) wind speed (left) and wind gusts (right) for Denmark (from DMI). Here we see that the highest wind speeds occurred in the south.
The figures above shows time-series of the mean wind from Kegnaes Lighthouse in the south-west of Denmark and Drogdens Lighthouse located in the east (a little bit south of Copenhagen). The time-axis is in Central European time. For both stations we see a rapid increase in the wind speeds. The increase happened above 2 hours later in the east than the west.
3. Predictability (including 40r1 E-suite evaluation)
3.1 HRES
The figures below shows forecasts of MSLP valid for 28 Oct 12 UTC and maximum wind gust during the 28 October. The o-suite is plotted in the left column and the e-suite in the right.
The figure above shows forecasts initialised 28 Oct 0 UTC. For southern England, the e-suite has less intense wind gusts than o-suite. For souther Scandinavia, it seems like the band of the highest wind gusts are a little bit to far north for both suites. In the morning on the 28th, SMHI (Swedish met service) issue a red warning for the Gothenburg area but later they had to move the red warning to the Malmo area.
The figure above shows forecasts initialised 27 Oct 0 UTC (+36h).
The figure above shows forecasts initialised 26 Oct 0 UTC (+60h). Here a large area west of England had very high wind gusts, what did not happened. We also see that the cyclone centre is more to the west compared to later runs. Both these results is due to a development of the cyclone too far west.
The figure above shows forecasts initialised 25 Oct 0 UTC (+84h).
3.2 ENS
CDF for wind gusts for Reading valid on the 28 October. Different colour represents different initial times and the o-suite (38r2, solid) and e-suite (40r1, dotted).
3.3 Monthly forecasts
4. Experience from general performance/other cases
- 3 January 2012 storm over Scotland and the Sting jet connected to the cyclone. See attached poster by Tim Hewson.
5. Good and bad aspects of the forecasts for the event
Good early indication of the event
Too early development of the forecast
Differences in the maximum wind gusts between e-suite and o-suite.
6. Additional material