'Hurricane' sweeps across Europe

[conestogo_flood]

They call their storms over there hurricanes and cyclones.

[angelwing]

I don't understand the language, buit the pics in this video, ouch!

http://www.etv24.ee/index.php?0&popup=video&id=5201

[HurricaneBill]

The reason it was called a hurricane is probably because Germany calls these low-pressure systems "orkantiefs".

Orkantief translates to "hurricane-low". These storms are more commonly known as European windstorms.

Like hurricanes, European windstorms are extremely destructive. In fact, I think I read somewhere that European windstorms rank second behind hurricanes as the costliest weather events.

[Bunkertor]

The reason it was called a hurricane is probably because Germany calls these low-pressure systems "orkantiefs".

Orkantief translates to "hurricane-low". These storms are more commonly known as European windstorms.

Like hurricanes, European windstorms are extremely destructive. In fact, I think I read somewhere that European windstorms rank second behind hurricanes as the costliest weather events.

But, i think beause of infrastructure getting damaged not because of storm-intensity...

The Front of a warehouse was ripped off. 6000 piles of frozen pizza are gone.
They should rather have given it to me...

.. http://www.album.de/bild/246736/10.cfm

[P.K.]

Orkantief translates to "hurricane-low". These storms are more commonly known as European windstorms.

Like hurricanes, European windstorms are extremely destructive. In fact, I think I read somewhere that European windstorms rank second behind hurricanes as the costliest weather events.

Generally just known as a storm here. Only place I've seen them referred to as European Windstorms is at companies who do catastrophe modelling on meteorological events.

The Swedish word for this type of thing would also translate to hurricane as well I believe.

They cover a very large area so can do a lot of damage. Also the ground has been rather wet lately so trees are going to go over a little more easily than at other times.

[P.K.]

Had a look around the park earlier. This is typical of the size of trees that were either snapped or felled.

[Tstormwatcher]

Finally saw coverage of this storm on the national news including videos of trees falling and scafolding falling and planes trying to land and takeoff. The Pictures of the trains blown off the tracks are wild.

[wbug1]

It was 967 hPa here in Finland briefly, but the winds never picked up nor did we get any snow. It did get cold though -24 C last night all of a sudden.

[TheEuropean]

Now two weeks after the big winter storm (in German we call it "Wintersturm") "Kyrill" life is becoming normal, but all parks in my town are closed, may be until summer:



On the evening of Jan. 18th power was lost for hours.

Now we have a great view from our house, all trees in front of it are gone. A few hundred meters away our street was closed till last sunday:



We never saw so much damage from a storm system.

The European