Hurricane hits Ireland
This item appears on page 55 of the December 2017 issue.
A rare Northeast Atlantic hurricane hit Ireland on Oct. 15 with winds of up to 110 miles per hour. Hurricane Ophelia killed at least three people and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes across the island. Ophelia was downgraded from a hurricane before it hit Scotland, Wales and England, but it still caused some minor damage and flooding.