"Extreme storm": hurricane "Zeynep" hits Germany at up to 160 km/h – numerous operations are running

Severe weather alert due to hurricane “Zeynep”: On the coast, the German Weather Service has declared the purple warning level. In some regions it becomes dangerous.

Update from February 18, 8:06 p.m .: Germany is feeling the first effects of the hurricane “Zeynep”. The storm is said to have even more severe consequences for all of northern Germany than its predecessor “Ylenia”, which swept across the country in the last few days. A storm surge has been announced for Hamburg.

Cologne felt the strongest gusts around 4 p.m. The wind was so fierce that people fell and trees were uprooted, according to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . The Hanover fire brigade has already reported 26 ongoing operations with 114 forces on site. Most due to falling roof tiles and fallen trees.

According to the emergency services in Celle, a roof of a hall was caught by the wind. And also in the Harz mountains, trees block some roads. The emergency services are on site.

Storm depression “Zeynep” claims the first fatalities in neighboring German countries

Update from February 18, 6:32 p.m .: The DWD is now warning of level 4 extreme storms (violet warning level) on the North Sea. In northern Germany there can be gusts of wind force 10 to 12 until the early hours, and gusts of over 140 km/h in some parts of the North Sea.

Exactly such speeds were measured on the Dutch coast by the hurricane low. Three people have already been killed in the Netherlands by “Zeynep”. A person was killed by a falling tree in Amsterdam, the fire department said on Twitter on Friday. A few hours later, a cyclist was killed by a tree in the south of the city. A third person died when a tree fell on his car in the Amsterdam suburb of Diemen.

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Hurricane “Zeynep”: Wuppertal’s suspension railway is at a standstill

Update from February 18, 5:47 p.m .: In Wuppertal, the storm temporarily paralyzed the suspension railway on Friday afternoon. A branch fell on a train and got stuck in the pantograph, said a spokesman for Wuppertaler Stadtwerke (WSW). According to the information, the vehicles are in the stations. All passengers could have got out. Once the branch has been cleared, operations should resume. Deutsche Bahn has stopped all long-distance traffic in northern Germany.

Hurricane low “Zeynep” rolls towards Germany: Storm predecessors destroyed parts of the concentration camp memorial

Update from February 18, 5:25 p.m .: Hurricane low “Zeynep” rolls towards Germany. The storm “Ylenia” had previously caused unrest. “Ylenia” partially collapsed the historical camp wall in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial in Oranienburg. About 200 meters in length, parts of the approximately 2.80 meter high eastern camp wall, which surrounded the triangular prisoner camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, were affected, as the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation announced on Friday. The damage cannot yet be quantified, but according to estimates by an expert from the foundation’s real estate department, it is probably in the six-digit range.

The camp wall, which was built in Nazi Germany in 1937 and has largely been preserved in its original form, was part of the security systems that surrounded the prisoner camp. According to the information, they consisted of a death strip, which the prisoners were not allowed to enter, an electrically charged fence, the guard post and the camp wall. The wall had already been damaged several times by hurricanes in the past, it said.

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Hurricane low “Zeynep” has already arrived in neighboring countries – this is coming to Germany

First report from February 18th: Offenbach – hurricane low “Zeynep” is getting closer. There is already a lot going on in the neighboring countries, the German Weather Service (DWD) reports on Twitter. The hurricane shifted from the British Isles to the North Sea on Friday afternoon and to southern Sweden on Saturday night.

Hurricane low “Zeynep”: “Extreme storm” hits Germany

There are two phases: First the cold front reaches the west. There can already be gusts of wind, severe gusts of wind. Hurricane-like gusts and hurricane gusts are to be expected in northern and central Germany. In the ridges and peaks of the low mountain ranges, the weather experts expect heavy gusts of wind to hurricanes, on exposed peaks – such as on the Brocken – gusts of more than 140 km/h are not excluded. With the withdrawal of the cold front in the south-west and south, the wind quickly dies down again.

In the north, on the other hand, things continue: The second phase begins on Saturday night with individual short thunderstorms with heavy gusts of wind or hurricane-force gusts. In the North Sea area, especially in the area of the East Frisian Islands, the Elbe estuary and on the Dithmarschen coast, isolated gusts of between 130 and 150 km/h can be expected for several hours. According to the DWD: “EXTREME WEATHER”.

In the night to Saturday, the snow line drops to 800 to 600 meters. There can be 5 centimeters of fresh snow in the Alps by Saturday morning, and up to 10 centimeters in the Allgäu. A severe storm surge is threatening in Hamburg. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) warns of a severe storm surge on the North Frisian coast: On Saturday evening, night floods on the North Frisian coast will be 2.5 to 3 meters higher than the average high tide. The storm is expected to subside again in the early hours of Saturday.

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Hurricane gusts expected in Germany: In these circles, the warning level is purple

In some counties on the North Sea coast, the German Weather Service (DWD) has now issued the highest warning level (purple). Extreme hurricane gusts with wind speeds of up to 140 km/h are warned.

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