You Are Not Hallucinating -- A Hurricane Is Headed To Ireland

[Arkansas Granny]

Don’t worry. You are not losing it. Ireland is in the “cone” of uncertainty in that map below. Hurricane Ophelia is the 10th consecutive hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin this year. According to University of Miami hurricane expert Brian McNoldy, the last time ten consecutive storms became a hurricane was 1893. While a very interesting factoid, the “elephant in the room” is that Ophelia is headed to Ireland. It is rare, but not unprecedented.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/10/12/you-are-not-hallucinating-a-hurricane-is-headed-to-ireland/amp/

When I first saw this I thought it was a joke.

[dubyadiprecession]

1. Is there that much warm water in the north atlantic to feed a hurricane?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Does that not tell you global warming is for real?!

[malaise]

3. Not just a hurricane

A Cat3 hurricane

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. It was in the fall of 1588, when a bit of bad weather greeted the Spanish armada, ...

... after it sailed around the north of Scotland and Ireland and headed south.

Bad winds.