Storm Ciaran

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 Stormy Ciarán brings record rainfall to Italy as European death toll rises to 14

France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) speaks with a firefighter during a visit in a region hit by Storm Ciaran in Plougastel-Daoulas, western France

By Euronews with AP & AFP

Published on 04/11/2023 - 14:21

In France, hundreds of thousands of people are still without electricity in their homes as the storm rages on.

Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy's Tuscany region as Storm Ciarán pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars.

At least six people in Italy and one person in Albania have been killed, bringing the storm’s death toll to 14 across Europe this week.

In Albania, police said a motorist died when he lost control while driving a car, which slid and hit barriers. Many roads in the country were flooded, including in the capital, Tirana.

Huge waves pummelling the Adriatic shores of the Balkans, and strong winds uprooted trees and ripped off roofs. Ferries connecting Croatia's islands with the coastline were halted.

Italian Civil Protection authorities said that 200 millimetres (nearly eight inches) of rain fell in a three-hour period, from the coastal city of Livorno to the inland valley of Mugello, and caused riverbanks to overflow. Video showed at least a dozen cars getting swept away down a flooded road.

Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani said that six people died in the storm, which dumped an amount of rainfall not recorded in the last 100 years.

In France, some 260,000 homes were still without electricity on Saturday morning, mainly in Brittany and Normandy, after the passage of storm Ciaran, electricity company Enedis reported.

“At 8 a.m., 260,000 customers remain to be replenished, particularly in Brittany (200,000) and Normandy (51,000),” the company said in a press release.

More than 1.2 million households have been affected by the storm, with electricity restored to 875,000 homes late on Friday.

Storm Ciaran claimed the lives of at least two people in France and left damage that will take several days to resolve.

Emmanuel Macron, who visited Finistère on Friday, the most affected region, called on the French to “remain extremely vigilant” in the coming days.

“We have a fight, which is to restore normal life as quickly as possible,” the President added, aiming in particular to restore electricity to 90% of affected households by Monday.

Météo-France will place 10 new departments on orange alert on Saturday evening as Storm Domingos approaches, which will cause “violent gusts of wind” on the Atlantic coast, meteorologists said.

Climate scientists say human-induced climate change has led to heavier rainfall during storms like Ciarán, often resulting in more severe damage.

 Storm Ciaran whips western Europe, blowing record winds in France and leaving millions without power.

02/11/2023

Winds up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph) slammed France's Atlantic coast overnight as Storm Ciaran lashed countries around western Europe, uprooting trees, blowing out windows and leaving 1.2 million French households without electricity Thursday, 2 November 2023.

Météo du Pays de Buch

1 hour ago. 5 November 2023.

STORM TRACK SUNDAY 9:50 p.m.

Tentative gusts values are already high while the stormyseeds have not arrived yet but they should not take long.We're already measuring:

●151 km/h in Cap-Ferret (Meteo France)

●134 km/h at Gaillouneys (FFVL)

●131 km/h at Porge beach (Holfuy) 111 km/h in Arcachon (Holfuy)

●103 km/h in La Teste (Infoclimat)

●94 km/h in Cazaux (Meteo France)

●87 km/h at La Hume (Holfuy)

●77km/h at Teich (Buch Country Weather)

●60 km/h in Belin-Beliet (Meteo France)

If anyone has well-placed anemometers on the northern basin, don't hesitate to share your observations. Be very careful because the strongest is yet to come. Already getting signs of some power outages and falling trees.

Winds up to 180 kilometers per hour (108 mph) slammed France's Atlantic coast overnight as Storm Ciaran lashed countries around western Europe, uprooting trees, blowing out windows and leaving 1.2 million French households without electricity Thursday 2 November2023.

Heavy rain associated with the storm pushed ashore at the southwest tip of England, and the UK's national weather forecaster warned of flood risks and urged people to take precautions. Dutch airline KLM scrapped all flights from the early afternoon until the end of the day, citing the high sustained wind speeds and powerful gusts expected in the Netherlands.

A weather-related death has already been confirmed in France. A truck driver was killed when his vehicle was hit by a tree in northern France's inland Aisne region, Transport Minister Clement Beaune said.

Nearly all coastlines of the French mainland were under severe weather warnings Thursday morning, from Calais on the English Channel to all the way down the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to Spain, as well as much of France’s Mediterranean coast and Corsica, according to national weather service Météo-France.

The weather service reported record-breaking wind speeds of 180 kilometres per hour along the Brittany coast. The wind reached up to 160 kph on the Normandy coast and up to 150 kph inland. Waves of almost 10 metres were expected in the country’s northwestern tip.

Local trains were cancelled across a swath of western France, and all roads in the Finistere region of Brittany were closed Thursday morning. Beaune urged people to avoid driving and to at least exercise caution when travelling across areas with weather warnings.

‘’We see how roads can be fatal in these circumstances,’’ he told broadcaster France-Info.

Deadly flooding and 200kph winds: Did climate change fuel Storm Ciarán's record breaking weather?

The storm cut power to some 1.2 million French households as of Thursday morning, electrical utility Enedis announced in a statement. That includes about half of the homes in Brittany, the Atlantic peninsula hardest hit by Ciaran. Enedis said it would deploy 3,000 workers to restore power as soon as weather conditions allowed.

The national train authority, the SNCF, cancelled some regional trains in five eastern regions starting late Wednesday night. Fast trains from Paris were eliminating intermediary stops on the route to Rennes and several other destinations.

In the UK, southern England and the Channel Islands were expected to take the worst of the storm. Flooding was expected in 54 areas, according to the Environment Agency, most of them on England's southern coast.

Schools were closed in some coastal areas as a precaution. The UK’s Met Office issued severe weather warnings for high waves and winds of about 130 kilometres per hour or more.

“Trees are in leaf at the moment, so they are more top-heavy,” Rachel Ayers, a senior meteorologist at the Met Office, said, as the storm approached Wednesday. “That does increase the risk of them falling over and also with the leaves around that makes (for) increased drainage issues.”

Authorities urged people in southern England to work from home, and train companies advised passengers not to travel on routes in and out of London before 9 a.m. Thursday as tracks were checked for fallen trees and debris, according to the Press Association news agency.

The blustery weather is the result of a branch of the jet stream - a consistent band of strong wind high above the Earth’s surface heading west to east - heading towards northern Europe, Henson said. The storm is caused by an interaction between what’s going on near the surface and a few miles above ground.

“It looks like a once-in-every-few-years storm for the UK and France,” Bob Henson, a meteorologist and science writer with Yale Climate Connections, said but Ciaran could turn into “a once-in-a-generation storm.”

From sirens to text messages: Why extreme weather warnings are needed more than ever

Friederike Otto of Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment studies the extent to which extreme weather events are caused by global warming.

She said there have been few studies on whether wind speeds were increasing because of climate change, and understanding is hampered by the fact that there were few observations of wind speeds taken far back in the past.

But the rainfall associated with such storms has increased due to human-induced climate change, she said. That’s because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture which must fall as rain. On that, the science was “quite clear,” she said, with a 7% increase in rainfall for each degree Celsius of global warming.

Heavier rain leads to more damage, and rising sea levels due to global warming also lead to more damaging storm surges, she said.

●The National Autonomous University of Mexico's Tidal Service confirms a weather station recorded a 205 mph wind gust during Hurricane Otis, which would mark one of the strongest wind speeds ever recorded on earth.

席伦风暴席卷西欧，在法国刮起了创纪录的大风，导致数百万人断电。

 2023年2月11日

 2023 年 11 月 2 日星期四，西亚兰风暴席卷了西欧周边国家，高达 180 公里每小时（108 英里每小时）的风速一夜之间袭击了法国大西洋海岸，将树木连根拔起，吹碎窗户，导致 120 万法国家庭断电。

 布赫地区气象局

 1小时前。 2023 年 11 月 5 日。

 风暴轨迹周日晚上 9:50

 暂定的阵风值已经很高，而风暴种子尚未到达，但应该不会花很长时间。我们已经在测量：

 ●Cap-Ferret 151 公里/小时（法国气象局）

 ●盖卢尼斯 (FFVL) 134 公里/小时

 ●Porge 海滩 (Holfuy) 131 公里/小时 阿卡雄 (Holfuy) 111 公里/小时

 ●拉特斯特 103 公里/小时 (Infoclimat)

 ●卡佐94公里/小时（法国气象局）

 ●La Hume（霍尔富伊）87 公里/小时

 ●Teich 77公里/小时（布赫国家天气）

 ●Belin-Beliet 60 公里/小时（法国气象局）

 如果有人在北部盆地放置了风速计，请随时分享您的观察结果。 要非常小心，因为最强者尚未到来。 已经出现一些停电和树木倒塌的迹象。

 2023 年 11 月 2 日星期四，西亚兰风暴袭击了西欧周边国家，高达 180 公里每小时（108 英里每小时）的风速袭击了法国大西洋海岸，将树木连根拔起，吹毁窗户，导致 120 万法国家庭断电。

 风暴带来的大雨登陆英格兰西南端，英国国家天气预报员警告洪水风险，并敦促人们采取预防措施。 荷兰皇家航空公司取消了从下午早些时候到当天结束的所有航班，理由是预计荷兰将出现持续高风速和强阵风。

 法国已经确认了一起与天气有关的死亡事件。 法国交通部长克莱门特·博纳 (Clement Beaune) 表示，在法国北部内陆埃纳地区，一名卡车司机的车辆被一棵树撞死。

 根据国家气象局的数据，周四上午，从英吉利海峡的加莱到大西洋沿岸一直到西班牙，以及法国地中海沿岸和科西嘉岛的大部分地区，法国大陆几乎所有海岸线都收到了恶劣天气警告。 法国气象局服务。

 气象部门报告称，布列塔尼海岸的风速创纪录，达到每小时 180 公里。 诺曼底海岸的风速高达 160 公里/小时，内陆风速高达 150 公里/小时。 预计该国西北端将出现近 10 米的波浪。

 法国西部大片地区的当地火车被取消，布列塔尼菲尼斯特雷地区的所有道路周四早上都被关闭。 博纳敦促人们避免开车，并且在穿越有天气警告的地区时至少要小心谨慎。

 “我们看到在这种情况下道路可能会致命，”他告诉法国信息广播公司。

 致命的洪水和时速 200 公里的大风：气候变化是否助长了席伦风暴破纪录的天气？

 电力公司 Enedis 在一份声明中宣布，截至周四上午，风暴导致约 120 万法国家庭断电。 其中包括大西洋半岛布列塔尼地区约一半的房屋，布列塔尼地区是受塞兰袭击最严重的地区。 Enedis表示，一旦天气条件允许，将部署3000名工人以尽快恢复供电。

 国家铁路局 SNCF 从周三深夜开始取消了东部五个地区的部分地区列车。 从巴黎出发的快速列车取消了前往雷恩和其他几个目的地的途中的中间站。

 在英国，英格兰南部和海峡群岛预计将遭受最严重的风暴。 据环境局称，预计 54 个地区将发生洪水，其中大部分位于英格兰南部海岸。

 作为预防措施，一些沿海地区的学校已关闭。 英国气象局发布了巨浪和风速约每小时 130 公里或以上的恶劣天气警告。

 随着风暴周三临近，英国气象局高级气象学家雷切尔·艾尔斯表示：“树木目前已经长出叶子，因此头重脚轻。” “这确实增加了它们摔倒的风险，而且周围的树叶也会增加排水问题。”

据新闻协会通讯社报道，当局敦促英格兰南部的人们在家工作，火车公司建议乘客不要在周四上午 9 点之前乘坐进出伦敦的线路，因为正在检查轨道上是否有倒下的树木和碎片。

 汉森说，大风天气是急流的一个分支造成的，急流是地球表面高空的一条持续的强风带，从西向东吹向北欧，汉森说。 风暴是由地表附近和地面几英里处发生的相互作用引起的。

 耶鲁大学气候联系的气象学家兼科普作家鲍勃·汉森表示：“对于英国和法国来说，这看起来像是几年一遇的风暴。”但塞兰可能会变成“一代人一遇的风暴”。 风暴。”

 从警报器到短信：为什么比以往任何时候都更需要极端天气警报

 伦敦帝国理工学院格兰瑟姆气候变化与环境研究所的弗里德里克·奥托研究了全球变暖导致极端天气事件的程度。

 她说，关于风速是否因气候变化而增加的研究很少，并且由于很少对过去的风速进行观测，这一事实阻碍了理解。

 但她说，由于人类引起的气候变化，与此类风暴相关的降雨量有所增加。 这是因为温暖的大气可以容纳更多的水分，这些水分必须以雨的形式落下。 她说，关于这一点，科学“非常清楚”，全球变暖每升高一度，降雨量就会增加 7%。

 她说，大雨会导致更大的破坏，全球变暖导致的海平面上升也会导致更具破坏性的风暴潮。

●墨西哥国立自治大学潮汐服务部门证实，气象站在奥蒂斯飓风期间记录到了 205 英里/小时的阵风，这将标志着地球上有记录以来最强的风速之一。

https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/most-extreme-winds-earth/

SEVERE WEATHER

The Most Extreme Winds Recorded on Earth 

Tropical Cyclone Olivia.

In April 1996, Tropical Cyclone Olivia bore down on Barrow Island, Australia. An individual mesovortex within Olivia's eyewall produced five extreme three-second wind gusts, the peak of which was a 253 mph gust on April 10.

For reference, this brief gust was more than 11 mph faster than the Indy car world record of 241.428 mph by Gil de Ferran in 2000. 

Category 4 hurricane.

After an investigation by the World Meteorological Organization, this was accepted as a world record for a tropical cyclone surface wind gust. Less than two years later, this gust was found to be less than that which occurred in Tropical Cyclone Olivia in 1996.

Also of note, this western Cuba station reported a one-minute sustained wind of 155 mph, bordering on Category 5 status.

The Strongest U.S. Hurricane Wind Gust on Record

Island Park, R.I. is heavily damaged by the Long Island Express hurricane of Sep. 21, 1938.

Island Park, R.I. is heavily damaged by the

(Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS, NOAA)

The strongest U.S. hurricane wind gust recorded must have come from one of the only three hurricanes to make a Category 5 U.S. landfall, right Not exactly, as the key word here is "recorded."