At its most powerful on Saturday, the pressure in the core of a storm south of Iceland plunged to 932 millibars
A bomb went off over the Atlantic south of Iceland this weekend. This was a storm which intensified so rapidly that it was called a bomb — a description first coined by forecasters in the Second World War for severe North Atlantic storms.
At its most powerful on Saturday, the pressure in the core of the storm plunged to 932 millibars and if it had hit the UK with that intensity the impact would have been devastating. But the storm was well out of harm’s way, about 3,300km (2,000 miles) away from us, although it did eventually blow a gale over