The Lloyd's Risk Blog » Grace http://blogs.lloyds.com A blog for Lloyd's Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Goodness Grace-ious me! http://blogs.lloyds.com/2009/10/06/goodness-grace-ious-me/ http://blogs.lloyds.com/2009/10/06/goodness-grace-ious-me/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:54:38 +0000 Vinay Mistry http://blogs.lloyds.com/?p=924 Monday morning, Tropical Storm Grace appeared as a surprising addition to this year’s named storms. Grace formed at 41.2degN near the Azores Islands. According to some reports this is notable in that Grace could well be the farthest northeast that a tropical storm has formed since the inception of satellite monitoring in the 1960s.

(Tropical Storm Alberto in 1988 formed slightly further north at 41.5degN). Grace is also unusual in that the storm formed over sea surface temperatures of only c23degC. Normally, tropical storms require temperatures in the region of 26-27degC to form and be self sustaining.

Grace looks as though she will bow out today, and transition into an extra tropical storm.

 

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