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The weather event made damage to many buildings along the coast as well as disrupt railway services due to flooding. [218] On 28 January, Storm Lolita, named by FUB, caused two deaths in Germany. [219] [220] On 14 February, a rapidly deepening low in the Atlantic affected Iceland, named Uta by the Free University of Berlin.
Name Duration Peak intensity Areas affected Damage (Deaths Refs Wind speed Pressure Felicity: 13 – 20 December 1989: 140 km/h (85 mph) 970 hPa (28.64 inHg)
An image of the Gulf Stream's path and its related branches The average number of days per year with precipitation The average amount of sunshine yearly (hours). The climate of western Europe is strongly conditioned by the Gulf Stream, which keeps mild air (for the latitude) over Northwestern Europe in the winter months, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom and coastal Norway.
The current definition of severe gales (which warrants the issue of a weather warning) are repeated gusts of 70 mph (110 km/h) or more over inland areas. [36] European windstorms are also described in forecasts variously as winter storms , [ 37 ] winter lows , autumnal lows , Atlantic lows and cyclonic systems .
Yellow - The weather is potentially dangerous, but unlikely to be extreme. Care is called for in activities that are dependent on the weather. [2] Orange - There is severe weather that may cause damage or accidents. People are advised to take care, keep abreast of the latest developments in the weather, and take heed of advice given by the ...
The European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) collects and verifies reports on dust, sand- or steam devils, tornadoes, gustnadoes, large hail, heavy rain and snowfall, severe wind gusts, damaging lightning strikes and avalanches all over Europe and around the Mediterranean. The ESWD is the most important database for such events in Europe. [6]
A Köppen-Geiger climate classification map of the European Union [1]. The European Union is generally characterized by a temperate climate.Most of Western Europe has an oceanic climate, in the Köppen climate classification, featuring cool to warm summers and cool winters with frequent overcast skies.
Cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of cyclonic circulations, or low-pressure areas, within the atmosphere. [3] Cyclogenesis is the opposite of cyclolysis, and has an anticyclonic (high-pressure system) equivalent which deals with the formation of high-pressure areas—anticyclogenesis. [4]