Violent wind gusts approaching 150 km/h. A storm named Éowyn will hit Ireland late Thursday night into Friday. It will also affect the north of England and Scotland, with violent gusts of wind of more than 130 km/h across the board, or even more on the British terrain, explains Météo-France.
If France must remain on the sidelines of storm Éowyn, the cold front linked to Éowyn will water the northwestern regions of France on Friday. “Wind level, gusts could reach 80 to 90 km/h along the coasts on Friday, a far cry from the violent gusts which risk hitting Ireland and the United Kingdom,” underlines the meteorological agency.
A “weather bomb”
To understand the particularity of this storm, you must know that powerful cyclogenesis will take place in the Atlantic. In short: depression will arise and develop extremely quickly. “This vigorous depression will be put on the rails of a fast jet (tube of strong wind), which will direct it towards Ireland then Scotland,” explains Météo-France.
If we speak of a “weather bomb”, it is because this storm is one of the depressions with the particularity of deepening very quickly and very strongly. “We then speak of explosive cyclogenesis,” explains Météo-France.