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14 Dead as Third Major Storm Batters Northern Europe­

February 23, 2022
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At least 14 people are dead in Northern Europe after the region was battered by its third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts across an area still recovering from last week’s hurricane-force winds.

Storm Franklin pushed in from the North Atlantic on Sunday afternoon even as crews worked to clear fallen trees and restore power to thousands of customers hit by storms Dudley and Eunice last week, The Associated Press reports. Heavy rains and high winds swept across Northern Ireland and northern England on Monday before moving on to France.

England’s environment agency issued more than 300 flood warnings and alerts and train operators urged people not to travel. Experts in the UK cautioned that people living in basement apartments were at risk of drowning in their sleep in flash floods, and Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said extreme weather “could become a feature of our landscape, of our climate” in future.

In France, AP says, a couple in their 70s died Sunday after their car was swept into the English Channel near a small town in Normandy. The couple had called for help but it did not reach them in time.

“With the wind, the car skidded,” Hervé Bougon, mayor of Bricqueville-Sur-Mer, told the Ouest-France newspaper. “It was pushed onto its side as it sank into the water.”

Meteorologist say the week of wild weather across Europe is being fueled by an unusually strong jet stream over the North Atlantic. The storms have left hundreds of thousands of people without power and triggered local flooding and evacuations as high winds ripped the roofs off buildings.

Gusts of up to 87 miles/140 kilometres per hour were recorded late Sunday on the Isle of Wight. A gust of 122 miles/196 kilometres per hour, provisionally the highest ever recorded in England, was measured Friday on the Isle of Wight as Storm Eunice hit the region. Hurricane-level winds start at 74 mph, AP writes.

Official weather warnings in Germany, where the latest storm is known as Antonia, were lifted on Monday, though disruption to transport continued in northern parts of the country.

The heavy gusts led to record wind power generation in Scotland, The Guardian reports, and in Poland, AP states. But that was small comfort against the widespread, deadly impact of the storms.

Experts said the weather toll for the week has been extensive for the environment, as well, AP writes. The German Aerospace Center, DLR, said the current storms hitting northern Europe would likely result in widespread damage to already weakened forests.

In a study released Monday, the government-funded agency said satellite data shows massive forest loss due to drought and bark beetle infestation between 2018 and 2021. These factors—which are exacerbated by global warming—weaken trees, making them vulnerable, DLR said.

“The current storm situation across Germany will probably again lead to the need to remove damaged trees in many areas,” it said.

Insurance broker Aon estimated the insured damage in Germany from the successive storms at €1.6 billion. The Dutch insurers’ association estimated that the three storms caused at least €500 million in damage across the Netherlands.

Despite preparations and warning by weather authorities, “the February storms have sparked a record number of claims and an enormous damages bill,” said Richard Weurding, general director of the Dutch Association of Insurers.

The storms blew roofs off buildings and uprooted trees across the Netherlands, killing four people on Friday as Eunice lashed the country. Insurers warned that more damage could still be to come with strong winds forecast in coming days.

In Denmark, the storm uprooted trees and disrupted rail services in and around Copenhagen. Sweden saw heavy snowfall that shut down buses in Stockholm.

The main body of this story was reported by The Associated Press and republished by The Canadian Press on February 21, 2022.



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