{"id":25346,"date":"2017-10-16T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25346"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:02:24","slug":"windsurfing-remnants-hurricane-ophelia-west-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/windsurfing-remnants-hurricane-ophelia-west-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsurfing in the Remnants of Hurricane Ophelia, West Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a day!! The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia were on their way to the British Isles. Ireland was about to get hammered and the West Coast of Wales was going to take a beating too. The weather first thing in the morning was mad. At 7am when we went outside it was properly warm. At 22.4\u00baC it felt like an early morning in Egypt rather than an October morning in Wales. It was still dark but incredibly warm and the NE wind was already gusting close to 50 knots. Here’s the live weather overview from the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station<\/a> at 8am this morning.<\/p>\n

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Weather Report at 8am<\/p><\/div>\n

There was a strange burning smell to the air as well.<\/p>\n

The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia were sucking in hot air from the continent and the Sahara. There have been huge forest fires sweeping across central Portugal and west central Spain over the weekend, killing at least nine people and filling the sky with ash and smoke. The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia have picked up dust and ash particles from these and carried them towards us, hence the smell of burning in the air.<\/p>\n

I popped into Borth at around 10am, the front of the camper was covered in dust and there was a feeling of dread in the air. There was an amazing orange glow and a strange light bathed the dunes and beach.<\/p>\n

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Dunes bathed in light from a Hurricane Sun<\/p><\/div>\n

The dust drawn in on the southerly winds had created clouds that made the sun glow bright orange. It was quite dark for the time of day and there was an eery silence. It felt a little like the beginning of an eclipse and the people of Borth seemed oddly perturbed by the whole thing!<\/p>\n\n\t\t