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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Engine, I don't understand that picture.
Are they saying the storm is as big as Europe, or that if it was over here Paris would be history? I don't think we've been affected --- few high winds, nothing special, and we often get the "tail end" of hurricanes and such, so I'm a little mystified. Have I missed the point totally?  |
Like Janszoon said, it's just showing the size of the storm relative to the size of Europe. That's the actual size of the storm superimposed on a map - to scale. Supposing the eye of the storm happened to occur where the picture shows, you would probably be having high winds, heavy rain, power loss and trees falling, and maybe flooding there in Dublin.
I just thought it was interesting. Western Europe is such a tiny place, and this storm is so large.