Storm depression Burglind

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Burglind
Satellite film Storm Low Burglind
Satellite film Storm Low Burglind
Wind force heavy storm with hurricane gusts
Data
Beginning 2nd January 2018
The End January 3, 2018
minimum air pressure 966 hPa
Spitzbö (flat land) 226 km / h ( Arth-Goldau)
Spitzbö (mountainous region) 200 km / h (Guetsch ob Andermatt)
consequences
affected areas Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany
Victim 3 (Spain and France)
Damage amount 1.1 to 1.6 billion euros (AIR worldwide)

The storm Burglind moved with hurricane gusts across Europe on January 2nd and 3rd, 2018. At least 15 people were injured and at least three people killed across Europe. According to the AIR Worldwide specialist service, the insured damage amounted to between 1.1 and 1.6 billion euros. Burglind caused the greatest forest damage with around 1.3 million cubic meters of fall wood in Switzerland . On the Rhine and its tributaries, the amount of rain increased the flood situation that had already existed because of the melting snow.

meteorology

Embedded in a strong, very dynamic westerly wind zone and coupled with a strong jet stream (see satellite film), the low first reached its lowest air pressure above Scotland with a core pressure of 966 hPa on January 3rd. The special constellation in Switzerland led to unusually strong hurricane gusts in the lowlands when they hit the Alps. Burglind then caused heavy rainfall in the Alps and German low mountain ranges with longer dry sections with an above-average temperature for the winter and an increased snowfall limit from 600 to over 2000 meters together with the subsequent lowland Christine and other rainy areas. Heavy rain east and west of Central Switzerland , but also fresh snow in the high alpine altitudes and some snowfalls in inner alpine valleys protected from the west wind, for example in Obergoms and the Surselva, were the result.

Naming

While the first name given by the Institute for Meteorology of the Free University of Berlin to the godmother Burglind Gorn was used as the name for the low pressure area in German-speaking countries , in the rest of Europe it was referred to as Eleanor . The storm had received this name as part of the naming for winter storms in Ireland and the United Kingdom .

Effects in Switzerland

Overturned train in Lenk
After wind and rain: flooding on January 5, 2018 in the Upper Rhine near Switzerland

The storm with a strong westerly current reached the highest wind speeds in Switzerland: Burglind was the strongest storm since Lothar . On the Chasseral (1599 m) and on the Bantiger near Bern (941 m) it reached hurricane strengths of 117 km / h or more even in ten-minute medium winds. The storm set several wind records in Switzerland. Peak gusts of 194 km / h were measured on the Pilatus . That is the highest speed of a wind gust ever measured there. In the Arth Goldau zoo , a gust reached 226 km / h, which is one of the highest values ​​ever measured in the lowlands in Switzerland. In the urban areas of Thun, Lucerne, Zurich or Schaffhausen, individual gusts reached hurricane strength. Between Zweisimmen and Lenk , a hurricane gust threw a 20-tonne railway wagon of the Montreux-Berner-Oberland-Bahn running from the tracks so that it overturned. Eight people were injured. Three large trucks with trailers and five delivery vans overturned on the A1, so the motorway had to be temporarily closed. Burglind had a low pressure area in tow, which in the following days led to numerous landslides and avalanches in the Bernese Oberland due to the widespread rainfall in the snow and the warm temperatures . Communities like Adelboden were cut off at times. In the Bernese Oberland, some communities were flooded by floods.

Table 1: Forest damage in Switzerland by Burglind
Canton Fall wood in cubic meters
Bern 400,000
Zurich 200,000
Aargau 150,000
Solothurn 100,000
Lucerne 50,000
Schwyz 25,000
Schaffhausen 20,000
train 12,000
Subtotal 957,000
Switzerland all cantons 1,300,000

On January 4th, the NZZ wrote that Burglind had run relatively lightly in Switzerland “despite some damage reports and major disruptions in road and rail traffic” . In the canton of Bern, for example, the total damage caused by Burglind was 30 million francs, in Lothar it was 150 million. 40,000 people were temporarily without electricity in the canton of Bern . However, the storm led to considerably stronger gusts of wind in individual places in the lowlands, so that local damage was greater than at Lothar. For example, 50 large beech trees fell through Burglind in the Dählhölzli zoo . There was major forest damage in the cantons of Bern, Zurich, Solothurn and Aargau as well as in Central Switzerland. Radio Pilatus reported: “The district forester in the canton of Zug estimates the amount of storm wood, i.e. the fallen and kinked trees, to be around 12,000 cubic meters. That corresponds to 600 trucks full of trees. ” In the canton of Schwyz there were 20,000 to 25,000 cubic meters of fallen wood. At Lothar it was 380,000 cubic meters. This “is due to maintenance measures that have improved the protective effect of the forest.” (Luzerner Zeitung on January 5, 2018) For comparison: Hurricane Lothar in 1999 caused 13 million cubic meters of fall wood throughout Switzerland.

Effects in Germany

Trees were uprooted in North Rhine-Westphalia, which led to disruptions in rail traffic and blocked roads. There were only a few trams in Cologne due to damaged power lines. In folk village in Lower Saxony, a wind turbine plunged.

Many tributaries overflowed their banks on the upper reaches of the Rhine, and massive flood damage occurred in the towns of St. Blasien and Menzenschwand in the Black Forest. In St. Blasien, Burglind fell 127 mm of rain within 24 hours from January 3rd to 4th. In numerous other snow-covered places in the Black Forest it was more than 80 mm of rain. The relatively warm rain caused snowmelt, which intensified the flooding.

The storm depression and the resulting snowmelt caused winter floods on the Neckar , Lahn and Moselle . Shipping was badly affected, after the Neckar, Main and Moselle, the Rhine flood on January 5th also stopped shipping traffic on the Upper Rhine near Karlsruhe, which was also expected for Cologne at a later date. On January 7th, the critical high water mark II (8.30 meters) at the Cologne gauge was exceeded by 8.42 meters - with a slowly increasing tendency; The transport along the Rhine upstream now has to be reloaded to other less environmentally friendly means of transport, the inland ports above Cologne can no longer be reached. In Düsseldorf, when the Rhine floods, the Düssel is pushed off, bodies of water that serve as buffers and intermediate storage, such as the Kaiserteich, are lowered, and a " flow control wall" is built. In Cologne, the Rhine reached its highest level of 8.78 meters on January 8th at 6 p.m.

On the upper reaches of the Moselle and its tributaries, the amount of rain collected only gradually, in Saarbrücken the A620 was closed to traffic due to the flooding on the Saar . Since the Rhine flood in 1995 , around ten billion euros had been invested in flood prevention with retention areas and dike relocation in the river's catchment area up to 2015. According to an estimate by the German Insurance Association (GDV), the total damage in Germany is likely to be in the three-digit million range. On January 3, the wind turbines in Germany generated 1.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. This amount of electricity covered 71.6 percent of electricity consumption in Germany on that day.

Effects in France, Spain and the British Isles

Roof covered on January 3rd in France

In France around 200,000 households were temporarily without electricity. There a person was killed by a falling tree in the Alps. In Spain, two people died in a high wave at the sea. In the British Isles, too, trees were uprooted and trucks overturned. There was a lot of damage from high waves on port barriers and along the coast. In Ireland, 55,000 people were temporarily without electricity.

See also

  • The storm Friederike a few days later in mid-January brought less rain with strong gusts of wind in Europe with a still pronounced jet stream; rail traffic was interrupted nationwide in Germany.

Web links

Commons : Sturmtief Burglind  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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