It was a weather event that many still remember with horror: Hurricane Kyrill caused a state of emergency. Now there is concern that storm depression Sabine will be similarly violent.
- Sabine rages in Germany from Sunday to Tuesday.
- It should be particularly violent at night on Monday and then in the morning.
- Will Sabine become a dangerous hurricane like Kyrill 2007 ?
Will storm Sabine become Kyrill 2.0? Memories of Hurricane 2007
Munich - On Sunday and Monday, storm depression Sabine will rage in Germany. Meteorologists fear that the storm's low could become as bad as the hurricane Kyrill in 2007. One speaks of a hurricane at a wind speed of at least 64 knots, which corresponds to around 117 km / h.
Kyrill 2007: The rail traffic was completely paralyzed by hurricane - no longer long-distance traffic
Between January 18 and 19, 2007, hurricane Kyrill hit Europe with massive wind speeds of up to 225 km / h . Rail traffic in Central Europe, especially in Germany, was paralyzed.
For the first time in the history of Deutsche Bahn , long-distance transport even had to be completely stopped at 9 p.m. on the evening of January 18, 2007. Previously, an intercity crashed on the Elmshorm-Westerland railway. Fortunately, there were no seriously injured passengers here. The next morning, long-distance travelers continued.
In Bavaria and parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, regional traffic was also shut down for safety reasons. Elsewhere, emergency operations could still be maintained in regional and S-Bahn trains. Apparently, Deutsche Bahn is again expecting massive disabilities from storm depression Sabine. She is already advising travelers against boarding their trains from Sunday to Tuesday.
Motorway closures, school dropouts: Hurricane Kyrill 2007 caused a state of emergency in Germany
In 2007, Kyrill not only had a significant impact on rail traffic. Little or nothing worked on many motorways . As a precautionary measure, some bridges in Germany were blocked, such as the Reichenbach valley bridge or the Kennedy bridge in Bonn on the A71, and later even the Sauerlandlinie A45 was totally blocked.
For security reasons, school operations in many federal states were also severely restricted. In large countries like Bavaria and NRW, but also in the city states of Bremen and Hamburg, afternoon classes on January 18, 2007 were canceled. On the following day, in many federal states, parents were free to choose whether to send their children to school, and in some districts the authorities closed the day from the outset.
Cyril damage: Many fatalities, forests destroyed, billions of euros in property damage
The damage caused by hurricane Kyrill was enormous. A total of 47 people lost their lives directly as a result of the hurricane, including 13 people in Germany. The deaths in the forests were also killed.
The tree population was particularly badly affected in NRW. About ten percent of the forest of the Ruhr Regional Association was destroyed by the hurricane gusts. The trees buckled like matches.
Damaged power lines, trees fell on them, whole towns were cut off from the power grid for many hours, especially in eastern Germany.
Financially, the extreme event was a disaster for insurers. There were 2.3 million damage reports . The insurance industry reported claims payments of 2.4 billion euros . In Europe, it was said to have been damage of around ten billion euros.
Hurricane forecast: will Sabine be as bad as Cyril? Kachelmann gives a cautious all-clear
It is still unclear how violent storm depression Sabine really gets. Meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann gives a cautious all-clear. Sabine was a “decent storm with local hurricane gusts”, but not a Kyrill.
Conclusion according to the current status: #sabine is a decent #storm, but not a Kyrill, not a Lothar and is therefore not mentioned by railways in other countries.
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