Hurricane Daria
| Daria | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time: | January 25-26, 1990 | |
| Wind speeds wide | 120 to 130 km / h | |
| Peak gusts | 170 to 180 km / h | |
| Lowest air pressure: | below 950 hPa | |
| Affected regions: | Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Fatalities: | at least 94 | |
| Amount of damage (insured): | around € 4–6 billion ( € 2.8 billion insured loss in Germany) |
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Daria was the first hurricane in a series of severe storms in 1990. He searched on 25/26. January 1990 mainly north and central Europe, left at least 94 deaths and high damage. Others should follow him, including Vivian and Wiebke .
prehistory
Daria fell into the context of the extremely mild winter of 1989/90, one of the mildest winters of the 20th century. On December 16, 1989 z. B. 21.7 degrees measured in Freiburg.
Spread
On January 25th the hurricane low formed over Scotland . The extremely low air pressure of less than 950 hPa was measured there. In the Federal Republic of Germany , the hurricane gusts reached top speeds of up to 172 km / h locally, and 120 to 130 km / h were reached over large areas.
Damage balance
The storm killed at least 94 people in Great Britain , Belgium , France and the Netherlands , and 8 in Germany.
For a long time, Daria was considered to be the hurricane low that caused the highest - insured and uninsured - damage. The Munich Reinsurance Company speaks of an insured loss of approximately the equivalent of 4.4 billion euros, the Swiss Re of more than 6 billion USD .
In his report Winter Storms in Europe - History from 1703 to 2012, Aon Benfield assumes an insured loss in Germany of 1.5 billion euros.
With hurricanes Lothar in 1999 and Kyrill in 2007 , Daria was among the top natural disasters in the last 50 years (as of 2002), which caused the greatest damage, and in terms of storms it was only storms from Hurricane Andrew 1992 and the typhoon Mireille surpassed 1991 . Later, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 also proved to be more momentous.
See also
swell
- ↑ a b Winter storms in Europe. History from 1703 to 2012. (PDF) Aon Benfield, January 2013, pp. 18–19 , accessed on March 11, 2014 .
- ↑ DWD, Extreme Weather and Weather Events in the 20th Century ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Munich Re on Hurricane Kyrill
- ↑ a b Natural and man-made disasters 2001: Man-made damage of a new dimension . In: Schweizerische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Sigma . No. 1 , 2002, Table 9 The most expensive insurance claims 1970–2001 , p. 23 ( Web document [PDF; accessed November 16, 2008]). Web document ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
