Hurricane Rages Across NW Bulgaria

Has anyone ever heard of this before? A hurricane coming off the Black Sea?


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Hurricane Rages Across NW Bulgaria


Top news: 13 August 2005, Saturday.

A hurricane stormed over North-west Bulgaria overnight uprooting trees and cutting off electricity in some dozen villages.

Worst hit was the town of Mezdra, some 100 km north-east of Sofia, where the storm ruined the asphalt coating on the roads and brought down many century-old trees.

Emergency units have commenced work to restore the local electricity network, yet several villages are still without energy.

Weather forecast inform of expected heavy rainfalls tonight on the central parts of Northern Bulgaria, around the city of Pleven.

I am trying to find out more on this storm event, but have been unable. If anyone else can find something, please post it here. Thanks.


Seabird

Here's a bit more about heavy rain:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=51149

And:
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?focus=scan&sid=731

I haven't found anymore on the hurricane, but it seems like Bulgaria has a lot of rain in the last week.

Here's the link for your article in case you didn't have it:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=51147


The link for the following article is:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=50969

(fair use applies)

Floods Death Toll Up in Bulgaria, Situation Remains Complicated

Politics: 7 August 2005, Sunday.

The situation in all Bulgarian floods-hit regions remained complicated following the torrential rains that drowned almost entire western Bulgaria over the last three days.

The nature calamity claimed two more lives on Sunday thus increasing the death toll to six people. Nearly 10,000 people have been evacuated in the floods-struck regions. Most of these people have been hosted at the local schools, municipal buildings and hostels. They have all been supplied with the necessary provisions.

The regions of Sofia and Vratsa have been worst hit by the disaster. A total of twenty-three municipalities in the western parts of the country have suffered severe damages caused by the floods.

Since the torrential rains ceased the emergency teams are dealing with the draining operations in the worst hit areas in Ihtiman and Roman, General Nikola Nikolov, head of the Civil Defence Agency announced.

On Saturday night the Maritsa river threatened Bulgaria's second city Plovdiv and flooded the coastal neighbourhoods. Later on the water level decreased, but the city remained without water supply. Now Maritsa's swollen waters are threatening Bulgaria's neighbours Turkey and Greece. The foreign authorities have been warned.

The dykes near the bursting river are being strengthened in Plovdiv, Pazardzhik and Haskovo regions. Dykes are also being built up at the banks of the Iskar river which flooded many villages and towns in the Vratsa and Pleven regions.

Electricity has been ceased at many towns and villages in view of the complicated situation. Some of Sofia region villages and small towns are also left without water supply.

The situation near Buhovo and Gorni and Dolni Bogrov remains very serious, with the Buhovo neighbourhood being unapproachable because of the deep waters.

Special crisis headquarters have been set up in most of the disaster hit areas. Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg is personally in charge of the emergency action plans.

Bulgaria's infrastructure has also been severely damaged by the floods, with several major thoroughfares and railroads being closed.

You're Right, HD! I did neglect to put the link in the post.

But were there high winds associated with these storms? I see the connections with rain, but not windspeeds.

Thank you both, Anjou & Heliobas Disciple. The resources in this group is awe-inspiring.

Seabird

Seabird,

Here are some images - I think you can see the hurricane pretty clearly on these.

(I haven't figured out how to add text around graphics so I'll give the links first)

FAIR USE APPLIES:

The first image: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/europe/images/xxirmet7n.GIF

The second image: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/europe/images/xxirmet7.GIF

The third image: http://www.eurometeo.com/english/display/image_D23

Seabird and Anjou,

I didn't see either of your later posts til just now! Anjou, we were cross posting and we didn't even post the same articles! And Seabird, it took me all that time to get the pictures formatted in a way that I could post them between my first post and second.

Obviously there was some sort of major weather occurrence - I wonder if they used a term other than "hurricane" in their native language which the translation engines just translated as 'hurricane'. Or if the event really did fit the definition of hurricane force winds (and not just a rain event). The graphics DO look like a circular pattern, but I'm not a meterologist.

I agree the lack of news on it is odd.

HD

odd,...and good find.

There's been a lot of "odd" weather the last few weeks. Lightning that is just not usual all over the SE. I've been in storms I've only seen in dramatic hollywood movies (ie: they're almost 'unreal') - where the thunder sounds like what you'd get with cinematic exxagerated special effects. Lightning striking every second. And booms that shake the buildings.

Then you add to that:

edited to add this: The strong electrical storm in the NE that has blacked out thousands. see: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...6&u=/ap/20050815/ap_on_re_us/northeast_storms

The strong lightning strike in Arizona.

The anti-cyclonic tornado in Montana (or was it Wyoming).

The tornado in Alaska.

And now a hurricane in the middle of Europe.

Remember the movie "The Core"? The breaking down of the magnetic shield at the beginning of that movie had all kinds of electrical anomalies happening. That's almost what this is starting to feel like.

HD

Obviously there was some sort of major weather occurrence - I wonder if they used a term other than "hurricane" in their native language which the translation engines just translated as 'hurricane'. Or if the event really did fit the definition of hurricane force winds (and not just a rain event).

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bingo...this doesn't match our definition of a hurricane. I'm an avid hurricane watcher, and for some reason "hurricane" gets thrown into a lot of overseas articles. Just a few weeks ago I noticed a "hurricane hits Moscow" article.

OK,

I asked some weather folkses over here:

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1001936#1001936

Anjou said:

OK,

I asked some weather folkses over here:

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1001936#1001936

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The translation of "hurricane" or the similie use thereof is a very plausible point. But this storm is circular in nature, and very compact. In order to become that cyclonic and organized it had to have a source of heat.

Is there a way we can find out what the temps are in the Black Sea this time of year? Just curious.


Thanks you guys.

Seabird

Storms like this one are happening a lot in europa. There called Orkan there.

oma said:

Storms like this one are happening a lot in europa. There called Orkan there.

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Hmmm, interesting. A new keyword to research by. Thanks, Oma.


Seabird