The Burns' Day Storm was an extremely violent windstorm that took place on 25–26 January 1990 over North-Western Europe. It is one of the strongest European windstorms on record and caused many fatalities in the UK and Europe. This storm has received different names,as there was no official list of such events in Europe at the time. Starting on Burns Day,the birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns,it caused widespread damage and hurricane-force winds over a wide area.
Hurricane Erin was the first hurricane to strike the contiguous United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The fifth tropical cyclone,fifth named storm,and second hurricane of the unusually active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season,Erin developed from a tropical wave near the southeastern Bahamas on July 31. Moving northwestward,the cyclone intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale near Rum Cay about 24 hours later. After a brief jog to the north-northwest on August 1,Erin began moving to the west-northwest. The cyclone then moved over the northwestern Bahamas,including the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama. Early on August 2,Erin made landfall near Vero Beach,Florida,with winds of 85 mph (137 km/h). The hurricane weakened while crossing the Florida peninsula and fell to tropical storm intensity before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico later that day.
Global weather activity of 2009 profiles the major worldwide storms,including blizzards,tornadoes,ice storms,tropical cyclones and other meteorogical events,from January 1,2009,to December 31,2009. Wintery storms are events in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures,such as snow or sleet,or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form. It may be marked by strong wind,thunder and lightning,heavy precipitation,such as ice,or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere. Summer storms including flooding,severe thunderstorms and extratropical cyclones are also included in this list to a certain extent.
Typhoon Fanapi,known in the Philippines as Typhoon Inday,was a damaging and deadly typhoon that struck Taiwan and southeastern China in September 2010. It was the eleventh tropical storm and fourth typhoon of the very inactive season. The storm formed on September 14 east of the Philippines and moved slowly for several days,initially to the northwest,then curving to the northeast before turning westward due to a ridge to the north. During this time,Fanapi intensified to reach 10 minute maximum sustained winds of 175 km/h (109 mph). Fanapi made its first landfall on September 19 over Hualien,Taiwan,becoming the first typhoon to hit the island since Typhoon Morakot in August 2009. Later that day made a final landfall in Fujian,China. The storm dissipated on September 21 over southern China.
The winter of 2010–2011 in Europe began with an unusually cold November caused by a cold weather cycle that started in southern Scandinavia and subsequently moved south and west over both Belgium and the Netherlands on 25 November and into the west of Scotland and north east England on 26 November. This was due to a low pressure zone in the Baltics,with a high pressure over Greenland on 24 November,and ended on 3 May 2011 in Poland.
Cyclone Berit was a very strong European windstorm that formed as a tropical wave near the Lesser Antilles in mid-November 2011. The storm began producing heavy rain and snow over Northern Europe on 24 and 25 November. Scotland saw its first snowfall since March,earlier in the year. The Faroe Islands also reported winds up to 198 km/h and excessive damage. On 25 November,the Norwegian Weather Service named the storm 'Berit'. Another storm,called Yoda,hit Scotland just a day after Xaver. The storm Yoda was widely known as Lille-Berit (Little-Berit) in Scandinavia,as the Norwegian Weather Service did not issue it with an official name.
Hurricane Sandy was an extremely large and destructive Category 3 Atlantic hurricane which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter,with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 1,150 miles (1,850 km). The storm inflicted nearly $70 billion in damage,and killed 233 people in eight countries,from the Caribbean to Canada. The eighteenth named storm,tenth hurricane,and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season,Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba,though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States.
Cyclone Xaver,also known as the North Sea flood or tidal surge of 2013,was a winter storm that affected northern Europe. Force 12 winds and heavy snowfall were predicted along the storm's path,and there were warnings of a significant risk of storm surge leading to coastal flooding along the coasts of the North and Irish Seas.
Cyclone Dirk was a large and deep European windstorm that affected Western Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to Iceland from 22 December 2013.
Cyclone Anne was a European windstorm which caused €75 million in damage across western Europe in early January 2014,followed days later by Cyclone Christina.
The 2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season was the first instance of the United Kingdom's Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann naming extratropical cyclones. The season started on 10 November with the naming of Storm Abigail and ended on 28 March with the dissipation of Storm Katie. With a total of eleven named storms,the 2015–16 season is the most active to date.
Storm Desmond was an extratropical cyclone and fourth named storm of the 2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season,notable for directing a plume of moist air,known as an atmospheric river,which brought record amounts of orographic rainfall to upland areas of northern Atlantic Europe and subsequent major floods.
The 2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season was the second instance of the United Kingdom's Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann naming extratropical cyclones. Substantially less active than the previous season,the season succeeded the 2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season and preceded the 2017–18 European windstorm season.
Typhoon Faxai,known in Japan as Reiwa 1 BōsōPeninsula Typhoon,was the first typhoon to strike the Kantōregion since Mindulle in 2016,and the strongest typhoon to hit the region since Ma-on in 2004. It was also the worst to hit the region since Talas in 2011,until the region was hit by more destructive Typhoon Hagibis less than a month later. Forming as the fifteenth named storm of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season,the precursor to Faxai was first noted as a weak tropical depression to the east of the International Dateline on August 29. The depression then entered the West Pacific basin on August 30. After moving in a general westward direction,the system strengthened into a named tropical storm by September 5. Faxai then strengthened into the sixth typhoon of the season the next day. Two days later,Faxai reached its peak strength as a Category 4 typhoon just before making landfall in mainland Japan. Turning northeastward,Faxai rapidly weakened and became extratropical on September 10.
Severe storm events in Sydney,New South Wales,Australia are not uncommon and include hailstorms,wind storms,and flash flooding from rain caused by East coast lows,black nor'easters and/or tropical cyclone remnants. East coast lows are low pressure depressions or extratropical cyclones that can bring significant damage by heavy rain,cyclonic winds and huge swells. Sydney is rarely affected by cyclones,although remnants of cyclones do affect the city.
Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Eastern India,specifically in West Bengal and Odisha,and in Bangladesh,in May 2020. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Ganges Delta. It was also the fourth super cyclone that hit West Bengal and Kolkata since 2015 as well as being one of the strongest storms to impact the area. Causing over US$13 billion of damage,Amphan is also the costliest cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean,surpassing the record held by Cyclone Nargis of 2008.
The 2022–23 European windstorm season is both the deadliest and costliest European windstorm season on record. The most notable system of the season was Storm Daniel,which became the deadliest and costliest medicane ever recorded and the deadliest tropical or subtropical system worldwide since at least 2008.
In 2023,the United Kingdom experienced flooding.
The 2023–2024 European windstorm season is the ninth and current season of the European windstorm naming in Europe. The new season's storm names were announced on 1 September 2023. Storms that occur up until 31 August 2024 will be included in this season. This was the fifth season where the Netherlands participated,alongside the United Kingdom's Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann in the western group. The Portuguese,Spanish,French and Belgian meteorological agencies collaborated for the seventh time,joined by Luxembourg's agency. This is the third season where Greece,Israel and Cyprus,and Italy,Slovenia,Croatia,Montenegro,North Macedonia and Malta named storms which affected their areas.
Storm Ciarán,known in Germany as Storm Emir was a European windstorm that severely affected parts of Europe from late October to early November 2023. Part of the 2023–24 European windstorm season,Ciarán impacted northwestern Europe and killed 21 people,eleven of whom were in Italy and four in France. It also caused mass disruption to transport. Widespread damage from 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) winds were reported in the Channel Islands,while 1.2 million French households were left without electricity.
