2013 Nordic storms

Weather events in Northern Europe Wind storm Hilde - 17 Nov 2013 - analysis.jpg Synoptic chart of cyclone Hilde, 21 UTC 17 November 2013. Norwegian Meteorological Institute 15 November 2013 19 December 2013 European windstorm, extratropical cyclone Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Russia, United Kingdom, Faroe Islands 2013 Nordic storms were a series of storms affecting predominantly the Nordic nations with other northern European nations also affected. The first storm in the series Hilde, named Otto by Free University of Berlin, and Eino in Finland was an extratropical cyclone affecting parts of northern Europe, causing disruption to electricity supplies and transportation across mid Norway, northern Sweden and central Finland during 15–18 November 2013. The storm brought a new record average wind speed to Sweden (at altitude), however wind speeds at lower altitudes were less than seen during Cyclone Dagmar of 2011. Most damage was caused by falling trees along the storm's path likely exacerbated by unfrozen ground. The total cost of damage is likely to be low, as the storm passed over relatively unpopulated regions of the Nordic nations. Meteorological history The storm formed over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Greenland and west of Newfoundland on 15 November. The storm followed a similar, though more northerly path than Dagmar in 2011. The storm was estimated to be less intense than Dagmar, and the more northerly track would take it over lightly populated regions. Preparation and warnings Before the storm the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued class 1- and class 2-warnings across Norrland. Class 2-warning remained active on 17 November in parts of Västerbotten and Norrbotten.Makar Maria Tiotusentals strömlösa efter stormen Hilde http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=5706389 17 November 2013 Sveriges Radio 16 November 2013 Angela Wiese Swedish The Finnish Meteorological Institute issued a level 2 warning, that significant wind damage could occur in central Finland,Find out when "Storm Eino" is due to strike in your area http://yle.fi/uutiset/find_out_when_storm_eino_is_due_to_strike_in_your_area/6938097 17 November 2013 YLE 16 November 2013 and released advice for the public on how to prepare for strong winds and any potential power outages.Meteorologists advise caution during storm http://yle.fi/uutiset/meteorologists_advise_caution_during_storm/6938360 17 November 2013 YLE 17 November 2013 The Norwegian energy company Statoil evacuated 97 people from the drilling platform Njord A as a safety precaution.Tåg stoppas under stormen http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/snostorm-hotar-fjallen_8733458.svd 17 November 2013 Svenska Dagbladet 16 November 2013 Hurtigruten ferry sailings along the Norwegian coast were cancelled in preparation for the storm.Uværet stopper Hurtigruten http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/uvaeret-stopper-hurtigruten-1.11361224 18 November 2013 NRK 16 November 2013 Railway transport was halted overnight (16 November) in northern Sweden.Stormen Hilde härjade i Sverige och Norge http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2013/11/17/stormen-hilde-harjade-i-sverige-och-norge 17 November 2013 YLE 17 November 2013 thumb|Total Precipitable water over Europe, 15/11/2013 Preceding weather Fronts from low pressure area NikolausAnalysis http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/wetter/maps/Analyse_20131113.gif 24 November 2013 Wetterpate: Free University Berlin 13 November 2013 15 December 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141215073416/http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/de/wetter/maps/Analyse_20131113.gif dead passed over Norway in the 24 hours before Hilde. These fronts brought close to extreme rainfall in Bergen on 15 November, and heavy rain across Western Norway which left many roads impassable as they were closed by landslides and rockfalls overnight 15–16 November. Norway's second-largest city, Bergen, saw 60 mm of rain fall in 6 hours, Friday afternoon and evening. The calls generated overwhelmed the capacity of the city's emergency lines and Bergen municipality staff set up an alternate number to cope with incoming calls reporting flooding of homes and roads.Moe Tom Arne Veier ble til elver http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.11360252 23 November 2013 yr.no 15 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131118184541/http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.11360252 2013-11-18 dead The rainfall also closed the city's Fløibanen funicular railway for only the second time in 105 years.Berglund Nina Bergen clobbered by torrential rain http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/11/15/bergen-clobbered-by-torrential-rain/ 23 November 2013 News in English.no 15 November 2013 On the Norwegian national road 15, a bus from Volda to Oslo was caught in a landslide between Hjelle and Oppstryn around midnight. None of the 35 passengers aboard were hurt but the bus was left stuck within the slide.Evakueringer, oversvømmelser og jordras på Vestlandet: – Hold dere inne! http://www.nrk.no/norge/evakueringer_-oversvommelser-og-ras-1.11360947 23 November 2013 NRK 16 November 2013 Norwegian High winds across Finnmark in the far north of Norway were reported on 16 November, which led to the evacuation of Hammerfest Airport's tower, and grounding of all air traffic.Jakobsen Bjørn Egil Har evakuert flytårn etter orkan i kastene http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article6986760.ece 23 November 2013 Nordlys 16 November 2013 Norwegian Wind gusts of 75 kn km/h were reported on the mountains and 64 kn km/h at the airport. Impact thumbnail|right|Hilde developing to the west of Norway on the afternoon of 16 November 2013. Norwegian Meteorological Institute The strongest wind gust in Norway was measured at Nordøyan Lighthouse in Vikna Municipality in Nord Trøndelag at 49 m/s km/h, with an average windspeed reaching 39 m/s km/h.Nilsen Amund "Hilde" tok strømmen fra tusenvis og skapte trøbbel til sjøs og på veien http://www.nrk.no/norge/uvaeret-_hilde_-herjet-langs-kysten-1.11362168 23 November 2013 NRK 17 November 2013 Norwegian At Sklinna Lighthouse average winds of 35 m/s km/h were measured with gust speeds of 44 m/s km/h in Leka Municipality, Nord Trøndelag.Pedersen Kamilla Orkan flere steder langs kysten http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.11361839 23 November 2013 yr.no 16 November 2013 Amund Aune Nilsen Norwegian 18 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131118183715/http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.11361839 dead Locally guts over land reached between 40 and 50 m/s km/h with waves of 13–15 m at the coast. Across central Norway high wind blew trees down onto powerlines. In Helgeland the E6 road was closed from the southern county border to the Korgfjell Tunnel. In the city of Trondheim police cordoned off areas of the city centre for public safety. In Sweden the high altitude weather station at Stekenjokk, in Lappland recorded an average windspeed (10 minutes) of 47 m/s km/h mph, which surpassed the record of 44 m/s km/h mph recorded in association with Gudrun in 2005 and another storm in 2–3 March 2011 also recorded at Stekenjokk.Hilde gav Sverige ett nytt vindrekord http://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/hilde-gav-sverige-ett-nytt-vindrekord-1.34251 18 November 2013 SMHI 18 November 2013 Swedish 22 November 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131122014437/http://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/hilde-gav-sverige-ett-nytt-vindrekord-1.34251 dead The station also recorded the highest gust (2 seconds) ever recorded in November during the storm at 56 m/s km/h mph with the previous monthly record of 55 m/s km/h mph recorded at Tarfala 7 November 2003, The highest ever gust recorded during any month in Sweden is 81 m/s km/h mph recorded 20 December 1992. thumbnail|right|Hilde on the evening of 16 November 2013. Norwegian Meteorological Institute Inland at lower altitudes the strongest gusts were 29 m/s km/h mph recorded at Vilhelmina, Västerbotten County and Frösön, Jämtland, which were lower than those seen during the Dagmar storm in 2011. In Norway electricity was cut to 35,000 homes at the height of the storm, mostly in Trøndelag and Helgeland.Fury of 'Hilde' stuns central Norway http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/11/17/hilde-slams-into-northwest-coast/ 17 November 2013 News in English.no 17 November 2013 The storm at its height left 36,000 without electricity in Jämtland, Västernorrland and Västerbotten in Sweden, which had been reduced to 28,000 by mid morning 17 November, with electricity suppliers warning some customers may not be reconnected until Monday 18 November.Carp Ossi 28.000 hushåll utan ström http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/28000-hushall-utan-strom/ https://archive.today/20131117132001/http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/28000-hushall-utan-strom/ dead 17 November 2013 17 November 2013 Dagens Nyheter Swedish In Finland, an estimated 230,000 households were without electricity.Eino-myrsky edennyt jo itäiseen Suomeen – yli 230 000 kotia ilman sähköä http://yle.fi/uutiset/eino-myrsky_edennyt_jo_itaiseen_suomeen__yli_230000_kotia_ilman_sahkoa/6938273 17 November 2013 Yleisradio 17 November 2013 Finnish Northern Sweden also saw problems with the mobile and land line phone network, with 15,000 customers without land line connections on 17 November, in the towns of Vilhelmina and Dorotea inhabitants had difficulty in reaching the emergency services telephone number.Strömlösa får vänta på elen https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/stromlosa-far-vanta-pa-elen/ 17 November 2013 Dagens Nyheter 17 November 2013 Swedish The Norwegian communications company Telenor reported that in Nord-Trøndelag 2,800 broadband and 4,600 fixed line customers were without service and in Nordland 300 broadband customers and 460 fixed line customers were also without service on 18 November. The company also reported difficulties with the mobile phone network in these counties, with over 150 2G base stations down and 60 3G base stations out of service.Storm Hilde hits phone services in Norway http://www.telecompaper.com/news/storm-hilde-hits-phone-services-in-norway--980388 18 November 2013 Telecompaper 18 November 2013 In Finland the regions of Häme, Tampere, Ostrobothnia, Satakunta and Savo, were particularly affected, with the storm felling many trees and breaking power lines. In western regions of Finland rail lines were disrupted.May 2023 In Russia power outages were reported in the town of Lakhdenpokhya, Republic of Karelia due to the strong winds.High winds cause power outages in Russia's Karelia http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/707712 18 November 2013 ITAR-TASS 17 November 2013 Electricity supplies were also cut to 108 villages throughout the Leningrad region, while Saint Petersburg saw electricity lines, billboards, roofing and traffic signals toppled.Fuerte huracán azota a San Petersburgo http://spanish.ruvr.ru/news/2013_11_17/Fuerte-huracan-azota-a-San-Petersburgo-9200/ 21 November 2013 The Voice of Russia 17 November 2013 SpanishAugust 2026 InternetArchiveBot The Saint Petersburg Dam was closed in the early morning 17 November with a storm warning in place in the city.Davydova Marina Dam Sealed in St. Petersburg Against Flood Threat http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131117/184761956/Dam-Sealed-in-St-Petersburg-Against-Flood-Threat.html 18 November 2013 RIA Novosti 17 November 2013 In the Gulf of Finland the closure of the St Petersburg dam left the ferry Princess Maria 6 was unable to enter port, waiting out the storm with 2800 passengers on board. Strong winds forced its St. Peter Line sister ferry the MS Princess Anastasia to return to Tallinn harbour.Tugev tuul sundis kruiisilaeva Tallinna sadamasse naasma http://www.ohtuleht.ee/554014 18 November 2013 Õhtuleht 17 November 2013 Estonian Subsequent storms Several further low pressure systems impacted the Nordic countries immediately after the passage of Hilde. Cyclone Oskari Oskari (Vincenc) – November 29–December 4, 2013. 976 hPa.http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/2013/brack/bracka20131201.gif December 1, 2013 surface analysis Met Office 29 December 2013 Named by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Oskari was stronger than Hilde in Finland, with a maximum gust of 34.7 m/s km/h at Märket skerry lighthouse, to the west of Åland.Oskari starkare än Eino http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2013/12/02/oskari-starkare-eino 16 February 2014 YLE 2 December 2013 Swedish Cyclone Xaver Cyclone Xaver Named Bodil by Danish Meteorological Institute and Sven by SMHI, the storm brought Force 12 winds and heavy snowfall. The storm brought a storm surge to the Irish and North Seas with coastal flooding resulting from what the Environment Agency in the United Kingdom described as the worst storm surge in 60 years. Record water levels were also reported in the Øresund between Sweden and Denmark. Blizzards and severe weather in Sweden and Poland led to several fatalities. The North Sea storm surge on 4–5 December 2013 saw water damage 1,400 buildings and 6800 ha of land, and caused no direct deaths.United Kingdom Met Office The Recent Storms and Floods in the UK 23 February 2014 11 February 2014 live Slingo Julia Belcher Stephen Scaife Adam McCarthy Mark Saulter Andy McBeath Kirsty Jenkins Alan Huntingford Chris 11 February 2014 Marsh Terry Parry Simon http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/1/2/Recent_Storms_Briefing_Final_SLR_20140211.pdf Hannaford Jamie https://web.archive.org/web/20140223174501/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/1/2/Recent_Storms_Briefing_Final_SLR_20140211.pdf This was attributed to the warnings that were issued several days in advance and the improved coastal defences that had been built since the North Sea flood of 1953. Cyclone Ivar (Seija) Ivar named by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and Seija by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.Stormen mattas av före tio http://hbl.fi/nyheter/2013-12-13/541626/stormen-mattas-av-fore-tio 13 December 2013 Hufudstadsbladet 2013-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20131213110453/http://hbl.fi/nyheter/2013-12-13/541626/stormen-mattas-av-fore-tio dead unnamed by the FUB. December 10–17, 2013. 977 hPa.http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/2013/brack/bracka20131213.gif December 13, 2013 surface analysis Met Office 29 December 2013 With a route and intensity similar to Hilde, Ivar once again brought hurricane-force winds to central Norway.Sammanfattning av stormen Ivar http://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/sammanfattning-av-stormen-ivar-1.34911 17 February 2014 SMHI Swedish 14 July 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144953/http://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/sammanfattning-av-stormen-ivar-1.34911 dead In Norway 50,000 customers were without power.Vinterstorm i Norge og Sverige: Tusinder mister strømmen http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2013/12/13/1213070609.htm 16 February 2014 Danish Broadcasting Corporation 13 December 2014 Danish In Sweden the storm left 55,000 across Norrland without power.Storm Ivar leaves thousands without power http://www.thelocal.se/20131213/storm-ivar-leaves-thousands-without-power-sweden 13 December 2013 The Local (se) 13 December 2013 Near record level winds were reported from Finland, where 200,000 were left without power.Storm brings near-record high winds http://yle.fi/uutiset/storm_brings_near-record_high_winds/6982983 13 December 2013 YLE 13 December 2013 Estonia saw winds up to 115 km/h and 45,000 homes without electricity.Storm Damage: 45,000 Households Without Power http://news.err.ee/v/society/b7a515bc-7ccc-4802-937b-c79c4075e937 13 December 2013 Estonian Public Broadcasting 13 December 2013 Described as more powerful than both Hilde and Oskari, but slightly weaker than Cyclone Dagmar of 2011 in Finland.Seija kraftigare än både Eino och Oskari http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2013/12/13/seija-kraftigare-bade-eino-och-oskari 16 February 2014 YLE 13 December 2013 Swedish Video of shoppers in Ålesund, Norway, struggling against the wind from the storm was shown widely on internet after becoming a hit on YouTube.You think Christmas shopping on your high street is bad? Check out this video from Norway… http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/15/you-think-christmas-shopping-on-your-high-street-is-bad-check-out-this-video-from-norway-4231056/ 28 February 2014 Metro 15 December 2013 Hilde and Ivar brought the worst forest damage to Scandinavia since the New Year's Day Storm of 1992.Sandmo Espen Hilde og Ivar ødela skog for millioner http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/hilde-og-ivar-odela-for-millioner-1.11427021 16 February 2014 NRK 19 December 2013 Norwegian Cyclones Zaki and Adam Zaki – December 12–16, 2013 and Adam December 14–19, 2013. 952 hPa.http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/2013/brack/bracka20131216.gif December 16, 2013 surface analysis Met Office 29 December 2013 References 2 External links YLE Galley: Eino's wake of destruction EUMETSAT summary: Storms over Scandinavia SMHI; Simone, Hilde, Sven och Ivar okt-dec 2013 (in Swedish) Hilde Category:Meteorological events in 2013 Category:2013 disasters in Europe Category:Northern Europe