UK braces for hurricane-force winds and massive waves as storm nears

The UK, Ireland and the nations of Scandinavia are in for some extremely stormy weather over the next few days, as a massive storm spanning the entirety of the North Atlantic sweeps eastward. Viewed from space, the storm looks like a giant comma tucked into the southeast corner of Greenland, with an arm extending out toward Europe

The storm system, which spans more than 1,000 miles, has two distinct low pressure centers, each of which are extremely intense. The storms intensified so rapidly that they have been classified as meteorological "bombs," for having undergone a process known as bombogenesisis. To be classified as such, a storm must have a central air pressure that plummets at least 24 millibars within 24 hours (the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm), and in this case, the storm center just southeast of Greenland, which had a minimum central pressure of around 940 millibars on Tuesday morning, dropped far faster than that Read more...

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