Earth Watch Report - Extreme Weather
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| In Poland, three people died and one was injured in the town of Poraj when a tree limb was blown onto their car," Piotr Cholajda at the state firefighting headquarters said. He said high winds had downed electricity lines, leaving more than 100,000 people around the eastern European country of 38 million without power. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management forecast wind gusts on Friday of up to 110 kmh (68 mph) inland and up to 135 kmh (85 mph) off Poland's Baltic seacoast. Poland's flagship airline LOT cancelled some domestic and European flights on Friday due to "unexpected weather changes in Europe". |
Death toll in Europe storm rises to 6 as winds blast Poland
By Wiktor Szary
Xaver blasted into northern Europe late Thursday after disrupting transport and power in northern Britain and flooding east coast areas in what meteorologists said could prove the worst storm to hit the continent in years.
Two people were killed in Britain as winds reached speeds of 225 kilometers per hour (140 mph). A truck driver died when his vehicle overturned and a man was killed by a falling tree.
In western Denmark the 72-year-old female passenger of a truck died when the vehicle overturned in howling winds.
In Poland, three people died and one was injured in the town of Poraj when a tree limb was blown onto their car," Piotr Cholajda at the state firefighting headquarters said.
He said high winds had downed electricity lines, leaving more than 100,000 people around the eastern European country of 38 million without power.
The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management forecast wind gusts on Friday of up to 110 kmh (68 mph) inland and up to 135 kmh (85 mph) off Poland's Baltic seacoast.
Poland's flagship airline LOT cancelled some domestic and European flights on Friday due to "unexpected weather changes in Europe".
Thousands of Britons evacuated from their homes on low-lying east coast areas on Thursday were warned of further woes on Friday in the form of "exceptionally high tides" - the most serious tidal surge for more than 60 years.
Sea levels are higher in some areas than during devastating floods of 1953 that killed hundreds along the North Sea coast.
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