November 2010 European Windstorms

Cyclone Carmen

Storm Carmen 11 November 2010 1212UTC Meteosat-9
Type	European windstorm Extratropical cyclone
Formed	7 November 2010
Dissipated	19 November 2010
Lowest pressure	948 mb (28.0 inHg)
Highest gust	100 mph (160 km/h) in Blackpool, England
Areas affected	northern Europe

Cyclone Carmen was an extratropical cyclone and European windstorm which crossed the Atlantic Ocean and affected the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in November 2010.

Windstorm Carmen formed as a low-pressure system off the east coast of the United States.

By 9 November, while over Nova Scotia, the system was named "Carmen" as it passed into the North Atlantic near and over southern Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, which had been suffering from the lesser storm Becky since the 5th. Windstorm Becky died out over Denmark and Northern Germany on the 12th, and its remnants joined windstorm Carmen over Russia on the 14th. Due to a strong pressure gradient, gale-force winds were recorded in the United Kingdom. A 91 mph (146 km/h) wind gust was recorded at Capel Curig, Wales.

Traveling eastward, Carmen eventually attained a central pressure of 949 millibars as it struck the United Kingdom. At 06:00 UTC on Friday, 12 November 2010, Windstorm Carmen was over the North Sea, east of Scotland, with a central pressure of approximately 965 mb (965 hPa). Carmen was last noted over western Russia on 14 November 2010, as it continued to weaken, and had burnt itself out over the Former Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, Moscow, and the Gulf of Finland between 18 and 19 November 2010.