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Netherlands, Schleswig, Jutland, England at least 25,000 Hurricane-force winds drove enormous waves atop an incredible storm surge that carved a huge inland sea into the Netherlands. The salt sea swallowed sixty parishes in the Danish diocese of the bishops of Slesvig. This storm also demolished much infrastructure in England.
The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute predicted that by the year 2100, global warming would increase greatly the threat of hurricane-force winds to western Europe from former tropical cyclones and hybrid storms, the latter similar to Hurricane Sandy in 2012, in a paper published in April 2013. [6]
In the Netherlands, flooding killed 1,835 people and forced the emergency evacuation of 70,000 more as sea water inundated 1,365 km 2 (527 sq mi) of land. An estimated 30,000 animals drowned, and 47,300 buildings were damaged of which 10,000 were destroyed. Total damage was estimated at that time at 895 million Dutch guilders. Sweden snowstorm
Ex-tropical cyclones (subtropical storms, tropical storms, or hurricanes) that directly impacted a European country from a 2024 Atlantic hurricane which became a European windstorm and retained its name as assigned by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida.
Hurricane-force winds were measured in the province of Noord-Holland, causing large amounts of destruction. Poly was the first very severe storm in the Netherlands since the 18th of January 2018 and the strongest storm since 1990 in general. It was also the first very severe storm in the summer, obliterating all previous records.
Likewise the use of the French term ouragan is similarly discouraged as hurricane is in English, as it is typically reserved for tropical storms only. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] European windstorms in Latin Europe are generally referred to by derivatives of tempestas ( tempest , tempête , tempestado , tempesta ), meaning storm, weather, or season, from the ...
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In 2018 a Dutch documentary titled Stormvloed in De Schelphoek ("Storm surge in the Schelphoek") was released. The book The Little Ark by Jan de Hartog, published in 1953, depicted the flood. It was adapted as a film by the same name in 1972. The short story "The Netherlands Lives with Water", [40] by Jim Shepard, contains a passage describing ...