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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.
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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.
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The figure above shows forecasts initialised 25 Oct 0 UTC (+84h).
3.2 ENS
The sequence of figures above shows the strike probability of cyclone with maximum wind speed (mean) over 60 kt (31 m/s) at 1 km height. The plots are valid for the 28 October (24-hours). The first forecast is from 28 Oct 0 UTC and one day is added for each plot. With longer lead time the feature is delayed (too slow) in the model, but the path of the cyclone seems very consistent up to 6 days before the landfall.
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
5. Good and bad aspects of the forecasts for the event
6. Additional material