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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]
Pages in category "Hurricanes in Europe" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... List of Azores hurricanes; B. Hurricane Bertha (2014 ...
The St. Jude storm, also known as Cyclone Christian, [2] and other names, was a severe hurricane-force European windstorm that hit Northwestern Europe on 27 and 28 October 2013 causing at least 17 deaths.
Two potent windstorms slammed northern Europe over the past weekend, unleashing widespread wind damage and power cuts, triggering flooding and leaving at least four people dead. The first of these ...
Satellite picture of extratropical cyclones south of Iceland. The following is a list of notable European windstorms. Windstorms Before 1800 Event Date Notes Grote Mandrenke (known as St Maury's wind in Ireland) 15–16 January 1362 A southwesterly Atlantic gale swept across England, the Netherlands, northern Germany and southern Denmark, killing over 25,000 and changing the Dutch-German ...
It might sound absurd — you don't often hear about named Atlantic storms hitting anywhere in Europe. European hurricanes are exceptionally rare — but they could become more common Skip to main ...
Cyclone Lothar [1] is regarded as the worst European windstorm recorded during the 20th century. [2] Crossing France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany between 25 December and 27 December 1999, Cyclone Lothar's average winds reached up to 115 km/h inland (Orly), but with gusts exceeding 150 km/h, almost equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane, [3] [a] resulting in 110 deaths (including 88 in France ...
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900 Death Toll: 6,000–12,000 Financial Impact: Estimated $30 million at the time (~$700 million adjusted for inflation) At the time, 38,000 people lived in ...