Storm Sabine: Serious Weather Shuts Down Air Traffic Across Europe
Source: DW
Ciara or Sabine: Call it what you want, but countries across Europe are being hit by a powerful storm. Transport has been plunged into chaos and schools have been closed. People have been injured in Germany and the UK. Northern Europe is currently being hit by a major storm, which is moving south. In Germany, where the storm is known as Sabine, travel services and public events have been the weather's first casualties.
- Germany: Germany issued its second-highest storm warning level for large parts of the country. In parts of the Black Forest, the highest level 4 warning was issued. The weather system was forecast to travel south towards Bavaria throughout the night. Early on Monday morning, two people were seriously injured by falling trees in the city of Saarbrcken. Wind speeds of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour were expected through the night in Germany, likely to fell trees and impair traffic.
In Kiel, winds were at 120 kmh. By midday, Dsseldorf airport reported it had canceled or diverted 111 flights, with Cologne-Bonn airport also reporting a number of grounded flights. Both airports advised passengers that stoppages could continue on Monday. Around 180 flight departures and arrivals -- about 15% of scheduled flights -- were canceled at Frankfurt Airport, a spokeswoman for the airport operator Fraport said, adding that 130 flights scheduled for Monday had already been canceled. Short- and long-haul flights from Munich airport have been grounded until midday Monday, the national carrier, Lufthansa, said.
- Britain: The storm is the strongest to hit the country since 2013. The UK Met Office issued more than 200 flood warnings after heavy rains caused some rivers to burst their banks. More than 150 millimeters (5.9 inches) of rain fell in a 24-hour period in northwest England's Lake District national park. The rough weather also brought down trees and power lines, leaving around 30,000 homes without electricity. The strongest wind speed recorded was 150 kmh at Aberdaron, in northern Wales, the Met Office said...
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- France24, 'Deadly Storm Ciara cuts path of destruction across Europe,' Feb, 11, 2020.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200211-deadly-storm-ciara-cuts-path-of-destruction-across-europe
- Germany has issued its second highest warning for the storm.
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they had to cancel the football match in Manchester this past Sunday. 
That was the beginning of Ciara, as they called it in the U.K., and it's only gotten worse since them. Violent weather is becoming the rule instead of the exception lately.
