Hurricane warning for Germany (18-20.Jan.2007)

Am also flying tonight, UK-Munich - v windy in UK right now but all flights are still on. www.stanstedairport.com

Mind you, I'd rather be stuck at home rather than on the Island so maybe if you can fly tomorrow as you said. Fingers crossed I get home tonight...and anyone else travelling too.

Reckon you just have to keep monitoring the situation.

So what time is this thing supposed to hit Munich? It's pretty tame out there right now.

I think BD said 3-4pm.

RTFA. The first line of the thread is "Hurricane winds of 120-150km/h are expected today between 1500 and 1600 hrs."

woof.

@MRs Peel,

I will keep my fingers crossed for you as well. I just do not fancy sitting at the airport and waiting for the storm to go by. So far here in Munich the winds are not so bad.

"My" squirrel, who lives in the tree directly in front of my bedroom, came by again this morning to collect nuts. Any idea what squirrels do during a storm like this? I hope hesheit will be fine.

He probably didn't want you puking on the back of his head...(where is that puking emoticon?)s

ooh so the weather debate sparks up. Every website out of Germany seems to say that it might rain tonight and wind is 14kmph. however all the newspapers and websites in Berlin are saying extreme weather after 15:00 in Berlin, dont leave your house!

I have to say it does seem a little hyped up by the tabloids (no suprise there) but there has just been a weather warning on Bloomberg TV though..

Check these links out for some (hopefully)"over hyped" weather warnings:

http://www.morgenpost.de/desk/1181195.html

and:

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitun...aft/621193.html

both quite interesting articles.

and in response to an earlier disput over the wind speed of gales and hurricanes, this storm is expected to be force 12 on the Beaufort scale, ie.

force mph knots (10 m above ground)

8 39-46 34-40 Gale Breaks twigs off trees;
generally impedes progress.

9 47-54 41-47 Severe Gale Slight structural damage occurs
(chimney-pots and slates removed).

10 55-63 48-55 Storm Seldom experienced inland; trees
uprooted; considerable structural
damage occurs.

11 64-72 56-63 Violent Storm Very rarely experienced;
accompanied by wide-spread damage.

12 73-83 64-71 Hurricane --

the lack of explanation of a hurricane speaks for itself i think!

batton down the hatches everyone

Will the Bahn and ICE stop running? Anyone know if what their policy is? Nothing on their website.

I'm in Wuerzburg working and will commuting back to Frankfurt today. Should I just take the next train home?

Our firm is booking hotel rooms for employees tonight who have travelled down from Hamburg for business meetings as they don't expect them to be able to travel back.

Satelite pics don't lie. They don't look hyped up to me.

Apparently the storm/hurricane is called Kyrill.

I love this hurricane already! I just got out of having to go grocery shopping for my boss caus she thinks it's unsafe to carry bags of food in such weather hahaha

Looking at the latest charts, the middle of the country is really going to get hammered.. won't be so bad here in Munich, but still very interesting..

From BBC Online: Germany braces for severe storm.

bunch of patients are cancelling out for this afternoon... might not have to work that hard today.

Dangeross, are you having us on, or is this really a named storm?

It really is. From the same BBC link as above:

...Too Slow, but yeh.

Or Cyril in English... but of a pussy name I think. No imagination these weather boffins...

It may be a bit "over-hyped", especially up north, since the hardest hit areas are expected to be in the south and southwest, but it's real. The storm is enormous which is why it's so exceptional. that's also the reason it'll hit pretty hard so far inland. Once hurricanes make landfall they normally die out quickly (conversely, the huge storms on the gas giant planets don't appear to hit land masses and thus can last for centuries). In this case, the formation is bringing in water from the Med Sea, the North Sea and the Altlantic. I can't find a single weather center which will make any serious prediction of the storm's track beyond tonight.

woof.

I thought you'd quit? Must've missed something

All pressure areas have names. This year low pressure systems get male names, high pressure systems get female names. Next year vice versa.
From the Bayerischer Rundfunk traffic information website

It may be hyped but better prepared than not prepared at all.

Was just on the phone with Landkreis Augsburg, and while I was talking the power went off there. Yikes.

Its not all bad.

We're about to buy a house, at least after today we'll know how secure the roof is before we buy it.

Well I am prepared just went to the store and picked up a few bottles of wine then bought bread and cheese. Might be a party tonight with the neighbors if we lose power.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,460572,00.html

Spiegel News Ticker for the Storm. It's in German.

I heard they stopped taking reservations at the Olympiaturm.

Right now its not very windy here in Berlin. I might go home early tho, I commute by bike, and i really dont wanna get caught in a 120+km/h Storm
Altho ... If it came from the right direction it could be a unique experience

Getting a bit more exciting out here in Ottobrunn now, a tree outside the pub we go to for lunch just snapped in half but sadly it didn't fall acroos the door to block us in.

Popular thread. FYI London is just starting to get breezy. Small dogs and lightweight owners passing 8th floor windows etc.

Sturmfrei!! Our GM just ordered us home by 15:00 and not to come back till it's clear.

It's been fairly mild here in Neuhausen/Gern area, few gusts of not much more than a stiff breeze, but otherwise quite still

Unfuckingbelievable. It's a bit of wind for godsake. Anyone would think the world is coming to an end

I'm just having a curry lunch, which will do little to reduce the volume of wind produced this afternoon, then will go home to clear stuff off the balcony. Good enough excuse for slacking off home.

My mate in Liverpool said he hardly had to pedal on the way to work. On the downside he almost got blown of his bike

And keeping in line with that, we've just been told we can go home at 2pm. WHISTLE GOES WOOOOOO

So who's up for riding out the storm in the protective underground environment of Kilians?

Safety first, people.

Ship foundering off of Cornwall according to the Spiegel ticker. I hope everyone´s alright.

It's getting really gusty here in Vaterstetten. Just picked up the wee one from Kindergarten, and I got blown over on my bike. Little man has a lower profile, so he didn't tumble.

The best craic when its stormy here is to go up the top of the Olympic Tower, pull yer jacket over yer head and jump into the wind. Or if it's coming out of the right direction run down the Olympiaberg with yer jacket up like sails and jump. Highly recommended. Used to do it on Howth Head as kids.

You gotta love this piece of shameless self-publicity from Spiegel... I thought I'd seen it all! WTF?! Or am I missing something


(Rough translation: "The Eschelsweg Kindergarten in Hamburg-Altona was closed as a result of the storm - all children should have been picked up by 13:30. Only the child of a SPIEGEL-ONLINE worker is still there, the other parents reacted immediately.")

for similar fun, perform said action on a northsea ferry at gale force winds

Sounds like its really starting to pick up a bit now.

It doesn't seem particularly windy here yet, looking out of the window, but we're also being sent home by 2pm.

A neighbor of a friend of a colleague of mine (the neighbor lives in Frankfurt) just called her to tell her that the roof of her house was just ripped off... YIKES!!!

I'm getting worried about our house - we have tons of trees around it and some (belonging to our neighbor) that aren't so healthy...Here's why I'm worried...we have lots of glass...

Geez, when is this thing supposed to hit?
Half of my colleagues are worried, and the other half say it's no big deal.
I'm not trying to get hit by some tree branches on my way home.
Know some people I'd like that happen to, though...not naming any names.

Na uh!?!
Are you serious - Her roof got ripped off by the wind?

From what I've seen, it's not supposed to be anything over 35mph in Munich...so what's the big deal?

My gf's freaking out and says I can't go into town with some stuff (we're mid-move atm)...fucking hell.

I'll be really bummed if the Internet goes down again. Ok, I'll be even more bummed if this crappy window in my (home) office breaks, but even then I could put a board up.