New storms threaten: after “Zeynep” comes storm “Antonia” on Sunday

Several deaths and immense damage are the balance of “Ylenia” and “Zeynep”. Now storm depression “Antonia” Germany – experts warn.

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+++ 9:28 a.m .: From late Sunday morning there will be strong gusts of wind again in many places. In exposed locations and the low mountain ranges, there are also stormy and hurricane-force gusts of up to 90 km/h. “After the storm is before the storm,” said qualified meteorologist Dominik Jung to wetter.net. Heavy storms are to be expected again, especially on Monday night. The weather is only supposed to relax a bit until the night of Tuesday: Then the rain will subside and the wind will die down.

First report from Sunday, February 20th, 2022, 7:54 a.m.: Kassel – The full extent of the damage caused by the storm lows “Ylenia” and “Zeynep” has not yet been recorded, and new adversity is already threatening: Storm low “Antonia” is said to be on Sunday ( 20.02.2022) initially bring strong to stormy gusts. The German Weather Service (DWD) reports that Monday night could be turbulent again.

Heavy gusts of wind or hurricane-like gusts are possible. Trees pose a particular danger, as DWD meteorologist Adrian Leyser explained: “The trees, which were already affected by the previous storms and are standing in partially heavily softened soil, can easily fall over.”

At least three dead in Germany from storm “Zeynep”

At the start of the weekend, hurricane low “Zeynep” caused storm surges in the north, rail traffic failures and accidents on the roads. At least three people died in Germany. According to an initial estimate, “Zeynep” caused insured losses of over 900 million euros. The storm was the most intense since “Kyrill” in 2007, said management consultancy Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK), which specializes in actuarial mathematics. The company had estimated the insured damage from the previous storm “Ylenia” at 500 million euros. The overall damage caused by storms is generally higher, sometimes quite significantly.

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The storm days also had immense consequences for travel. Deutsche Bahn (DB) had partially stopped train traffic on Friday, and the failures, which mainly affected the north, often continued over the weekend. “The forecast for Sunday and Monday remains difficult,” said DB spokesman Achim Stauss on Saturday evening. There is damage to the railway infrastructure on more than 1000 kilometers of track. Clearing crews are on duty around the clock to remove fallen trees and repair overhead lines.

Storm “Antonia” can bring hurricane-like gusts to Germany

Due to the storm damage, delays and train cancellations can be expected in North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Germany until at least Monday afternoon, the railway said on its website. Furthermore, no long-distance trains run north of Dortmund and Berlin. A few ICE trains run between Berlin, Hanover and Cologne as well as Munich, Hanover, Bremen and Hamburg.

For the first time since 2013, Hamburg experienced a very severe storm surge* with more than 3.5 meters above the mean high water level during the “Zeynep” passage. In Bremen, a 55-meter-high construction crane* crashed into an office building that was still under construction, in Hamburg, parts of the facade of a four-storey residential building collapsed. In Bad Zwischenahn (Lower Saxony), a spruce tree around nine meters high fell on a clinic building, nobody was injured. The North Sea islands of Wangerooge and Langeoog lost significant parts of their bathing beach. Even if the start of the week may be wild again: the weather should finally calm down on Tuesday. (lrg/dpa) * hna.de, 24hamburg.de and kreiszeitung.de are offers from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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