Hurricane Gudrun

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Gudrun (Erwin)
Storm wood storage after hurricane Gudrun [1], April 2008
Storm wood storage after Hurricane Gudrun, April 2008
storm Hurricane with storm surge
General weather situation West facing (North Atlantic Trogorkan )
Data
Climax 8th-9th January 2005
Wind peak 151 km / h (42 m / s) ( Hanö (SE), Jan. 8 )
consequences
affected areas Ireland , northern Great Britain , Denmark , southern Norway , southern Sweden , Finland , Estonia , north-western Russia
Victim 17th
Damage amount € 2.25 billion in forest damage

The hurricane Gudrun , also Erwin , (named Gudrun by the Norwegian Norske Meteorologisk Institutt , named by DWD Erwin ) passed over Ireland and parts of Great Britain , Denmark as well as Norway and Sweden on the weekend of January 8th and 9th, 2005 and had followed its route Sweden has a wind speed of over 40 m / s (145 km / h). In addition, coastal cities in Finland , Russia and Estonia were threatened by high water levels. The storm killed a total of 17 people and was the worst storm over northern Europe in 15 years.

Sweden

Gudrun caused great damage , especially in southern Sweden in the provinces of Halland and Småland , where it was the most momentous storm in 35 years. In one night around 160,000 hectares of forest were robbed by the hurricane , which corresponds to the area of ​​around 300,000 soccer fields. The Ministry of Agriculture estimated the amount of storm-felled wood at 75 million cubic meters, comparable to a normal annual wood harvest from all of Sweden or three to four annual harvests in the affected region. The damage was put at the equivalent of 2.25 billion euros and is clearly visible in the affected areas.

The reconstruction of the infrastructure was slow. On the night of January 9, 2005, 341,000 households were without electricity; four days after the storm 100,000; after two weeks still 25,000. The excessive number of air lines was subsequently heavily criticized, especially since it left large parts of the country without telecommunications for weeks.

Other people were killed in the dangerous cleanup work in devastated Swedish forests , which also included forest workers and machines from large parts of Europe. In forestry, Gudrun exceeded the storms of 1969 in damaging effects, in which 37 million cubic meters had fallen. The windthrow led to enormous wood reserves in southern Sweden, which were then the world's largest. From January 14th to 15th, 2007, another winter orcan, Per , threw another 12 million cubic meters.

Norway

Even in southern Norway from Østfold to Nordland , which was much less affected, Gudrun was one of the most momentous natural disasters of the last two decades.

swell

  1. ↑ cf. Swedish-language Wikipedia: Södra Skogsägarna
  2. ↑ a b c d e Den stora januaristormen. (No longer available online.) SMHI, April 4, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 23, 2009 (Swedish, down 5/2010).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.smhi.se  
  3. ↑ a b c d e Richard Hewston, UEA Norwich / University of East Anglia : Windstorm Erwin . March 19, 2007 (last updated) - Synopsis (engl.)
  4. ↑ Forecast 20050108 , met.fu-berlin.de
  5. ↑ cf. Swedish-language Wikipedia: Hurricanes Per
  6. ↑ Hurricane Per rages in Sweden - 200,000 people without electricity  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Sveriges Radio website@1@ 2Template: dead link / mobil.sr.se  
  7. ↑ named by DWD Hanno , see weather map forecast 20070113 , met.fu-berlin.de
  8. ↑ Gudrun, Hårek and Inga 2005 : 160 million  kr. (€ 20 million); Hurricane Narve , Jan. 2006: ~ 188 million kr; Storm surges 1995: 940 million kr; Hurricanes 1992: 1,300 million kr (~ 160 million €);
    quoted after Det understand uværet. yr.no , September 21, 2008, accessed September 30, 2008 (Norwegian).

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