Thursday, December 5, 2013

El temporal mata a cuatro personas y mantiene en alerta al norte de Europa/Britain prepares for ‘most serious coastal surge’ for 60 years

Los meteorólogos señalan el alto riesgo de inundaciones en el norte de Alemania y en Holanda. Decenas de vuelos han sido suspendidos en Amsterdam y Hamburgo...

La tormenta Xaver ha provocado la muerte de cuatro personas en el norte de Europa. Además, la red de transportes no está pudiendo funcionar con normalidad y se espera que la mayor marejada en décadas en el Mar del Norte.

Decenas de vuelos han sido cancelados o retrasados en Holanda, Alemania y Escocia, mientras que los servicios ferroviarios están cerrados en varios países. El puente Oresund, que conecta la ciudad sueca de Malmo con Copenhague, está cerrado.

Decenas de miles de hogares se han quedado sin electricidad. Xaver ha azotado el continente con vientos de hasta a 228 km/h. En Escocia un camionero ha fallecido cuando su vehículo ha sido golpeado por los fuertes vientos y ha salido de la calzada cerca de Edimburgo. Al menos otras dos personas han sido heridas por la caída de árboles.
En Inglaterra un hombre muerto por la caída de un árbol en Nottinghamshire, en el centro del país.
En Suecia dos marineros cayeron por la borda a 22 km de la costa del sur del país en el mar Báltico. los servicios de rescate no han podido localizarles.
Esta noche se espera la llegada de una gran marejada, la mayor en décadas en el mar del Norte. La Agencia Meteorológica de Reino Unido ha afirmado que las marejadas podrían inundar grandes áreas costeras. Además, la barrera del Támesis ha sido cerrada para proteger Londres. Las autoridades británicas también han evacuado viviendas en Great Yarmouth, en el este de Inglaterra.
En Holanda, las autoridades han declarado la alerta máxima de inundación posible en cuatro áreas en el norte y noroeste del país. Y, por primera vez en seis años, se han activado las barreras de protección contra las subidas del mar.

Hamburgo en alerta
La ciudad portuaria del norte de Alemania se prepara para ser golpeada directamente por Xaver. Las previsiones meteorológicas afirman que el temporal podría ser tan poderoso como la tormenta e inundaciones que en 1962 causaron la muerte de 315 personas.
El aeropuerto de la ciudad ha cancelado todos los vuelos. "Lo verdaderamente peligroso de esta tormenta son los vientos, que continuarán durante horas", ha afirmado el meteorólogo alemán Andreas Friedrich, quien ha señalado que "el peligro de inundaciones costeras es alta ".
Las autoridades están recomendando que la población permanezca en sus hogares debido al riesgo de árboles sean derribados o los techos de las casas sean arrancados por el viento y las condiciones climáticas extremas en el norte de Hamburgo y los estados de Schleswig-Holstein, Baja Sajonia y Bremen.

Vuelos cancelados
La aerolínea holandesa KLM ha cancelado 84 vuelos en el aeropuerto de Amsterdam Schiphol, mientras que cerca de 20 fueron cancelados en Hamburgo.
También ha habido cancelaciones en Glasgow, Edimburgo y Aberdeen aeropuertos en Escocia.
Todos los servicios ferroviarios en Escocia han sido cancelados debido a los escombros en las líneas y los daños a los equipos y servicios en el norte de Inglaterra.
La situación de Suecia y Dinamarca es similar, mientras en Alemania, alemán Rail, ha confirmado la interrupción de sus servicios una la franja norte del país. El servicio de ferries entre Alemania Suecia y Dinamarca han sido cancelados.
 http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/12/05/actualidad/1386269386_260818.html
5/12/13
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  • Britain prepares for ‘most serious coastal surge’ for 60 years

Hurricane-force winds cut transport and power in northern Britain and and blasted towards mainland Europe, as meteorologists warned Storm Xaver could be the worst to hit the continent in years.

British authorities said the Thames Barrier, designed to protect London from flooding during exceptional tides, would shut tonight and warned of “the most serious coastal tidal surge for over 60 years in England”.

Prime minister David Cameron called two emergency meetings to discuss strategy.

Two people were killed in Britain as the nation’s weather office measured winds of up to 225 km/h when the storm slammed Scotland and parts of England.

A lorry driver was killed and four people injured when his vehicle overturned and collided with other vehicles in West Lothian, Scotland, police said, while a second man died near Nottingham in central England when he was hit by a falling tree.

More than 100,000 homes were left without power across Britain, 80,000 of them in Scotland, according to energy company SSE.

North Sea oil and gas producers including ConocoPhillips , Maersk Oil, and Statoil cut production and evacuated staff from some platforms.

All train services in Scotland were cancelled this morning due to debris on the tracks but services slowly resumed this afternoon.

Lifeboat crews were called out to rescue people from flooded homes in Rhyl in north Wales on Thursday morning.

Low-lying coastal areas of eastern England were waiting for the storm to hit on Thursday evening, with the Environment Agency issuing 41 severe flood warnings, the highest category.

Police were advising more than 15,000 people to evacuate east coast areas vulnerable to tidal surges, although sea defences have been strengthened since storms and flooding killed hundreds on the North Sea coast in 1953.

Germany’s northern port of Hamburg was preparing for a direct hit, which some forecasters said could be as powerful as a storm and flood in the city in 1962 that killed 315.

Hamburg airport cancelled all flights and many schools and Christmas markets were closed. Ferries to Germany’s North Sea islands were kept in port and some industrial plants closed.

“The truly dangerous thing about this storm is that the winds will continue for hours and won’t let up,” said Andreas Friedrich, a German weather service meteorologist. “The danger of coastal flooding is high.”

Mr Friedrich said people were being advised to stay indoors because of the risk of trees being toppled or roofs blown off. An extreme weather warning was issued for the northern states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen.

The Oresund bridge linking southern Sweden with Denmark was shut this afternoon. Some railway lines in southern Sweden were closed, with high winds expected in the south and heavy snow further north.

In Denmark, railroad company DSB said it would stop operating most trains. Airline Alsie Express cancelled all domestic flights and the 6.8 km Great Belt Bridge, which includes a 1.6 km suspension bridge section, was closed.

Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said. At Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport 50 flights were cancelled, a spokeswoman said, adding there could be further cancellations. 
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/britain-prepares-for-most-serious-coastal-surge-for-60-years-1.1617876 5/12/13

4 comments:

  1. Tempesta Xaver, paura in tutta Europa: "La più potente da 50 anni"...

    Una bassa pressione accompagnata da raffiche di vento violentissime, aria gelida, neve e onde fino a dieci metri si sta abbattendo su tutto il Nord Europa. Ci si prepara ad affrontare la tempesta “Xaver”, che si è formata in Groenlandia e che secondo gli esperti è la più violenta dell'ultimo mezzo secolo.

    L'allarme rosso riguarda soprattutto Germania, Belgio e Olanda. Si tratta dello stesso tifone che si è abbattuto sulla Scozia, provocando un morto, e che sta creando allarme anche in Danimarca. Tutte le possibili misure precauzionali sono state attivate lungo la costa, dove è prevista una marea tra i 6 e i 7 metri - la più alta degli ultimi 60 anni - che metterà alla prova i sistemi anti-inondazione realizzati dai due Paesi per evitare di essere sommersi dalle acque del Mare del Nord.

    La tempesta si dovrebbe abbattere nelle prossime ore soprattutto sulle provincie settentrionali dell'Olanda, dove sono previste raffiche di vento, accompagnate da pioggia, fino a 130 km orari. La compagnia aerea olandese Klm ha già cancellato numerosi voli in arrivo e partenza dall'aeroporto di Amsterdam-Schipol. Anche in Germania e Danimarca (non è escluso che la tempesta arrivi anche in Italia) è scattato l'allarme e in diverse regioni gli abitanti sono stati invitati a restare nelle proprie case........http://www.affaritaliani.it/cronache/tempesta-xaver-paura-tutta-europa051213.html?ref=ig
    5/12/13

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  2. UK flood defences praised for saving lives and property on east coast...

    Huge storm and tidal surge pass without major destruction despite water rising above levels of 1953 great flood.

    Britain's flood defences and flood warnings that led to thousands of people leaving their homes in the face of record-breaking high tides along the east coast have saved lives and property, according to the Environment Agency and police.

    Although two people died on Thursday in fierce storms, which disrupted large parts of the country, overnight flooding from coastal surges was not as bad as expected.

    But Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, warned that the crisis was not over.

    "Conditions like this only occur in some places every 500 years, so it's good that over 800,000 properties were protected by our flood defences," said Paterson, who was speaking after he chaired a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee at 8am to assess the situation.

    "I would stress that this is not over. There will still be exceptionally high tides today and tomorrow, and I would urge everybody to pay very close attention to advice from the Environment Agency and also to follow instructions from the police, local government and emergency services."

    The Environment Agency said that in some places on the east coast sea levels were even higher during Thursday's storm than they had been in 1953, when a similar flood claimed thousands of lives. But this time flood defences were much more effective, Jason Wakeford, an Environment Agency spokesman said...............http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/06/uk-flood-defences-storm-surge-east-coast
    6/12/13

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  3. Βρετανία: Εκκενώνονται παραθαλάσσιες περιοχές...

    Οι αρχές στη Βρετανία απομάκρυναν χιλιάδες κατοίκους από τα σπίτια τους σε παράκτιες περιοχές της Βρετανίας, αναμένοντας την έλευση της μεγάλης κακοκαιρίας που σαρώνει τη βόρεια Ευρώπη.

    Τα φράγμα στον ποταμό Τάμεση παραμένει για δεύτερη μέρα κλειστό καθώς αναμένονται τεράστια κύματα τα χειρότερα εδώ και μισό και πλέον αιώνα.

    Στην Βρετανία δύο άτομα έχασαν τη ζωή τους από την καταιγίδα Xaver που προκάλεσε ανέμους ταχύτητας έως και 228 χλμ την ώρα και τώρα κατευθύνεται προς τη Γερμανία και την Ολλανδία.

    Σύμφωνα με τις αρχές εκκενώθηκαν 10,000 σπίτια τα περισσότερα στην κομητεία του Νόρφολκ. Η αποβάθρα στην περιοχή έχει κλείσει και η ακτοφυλακή προειδοποιεί τους κατοίκους να μην προσεγγίζουν την περιοχή γιατί διατρέχουν κίνδυνο.
    http://www.politisnews.eu/cgibin/hweb?-A=252286&-V=articles
    6/12/13

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  4. Storm claims 10 casualties in different European countries ...

    Storm, accompanied by gale-force winds, has also led to the breakage of power lines, leaving about 400 thousand households in Poland without power. In Sweden, the blackout affected 50,000 people.

    In Germany, there were no lights in four thousand buildings. In addition, the storm disrupted air traffic across northern and central Europe - several thousand people whose flights have been canceled or postponed, were not able to reach their destination . In Scotland, the storm also caused disruptions in train schedule . In Germany, a tree that fell on the railroad derailed a passenger train in the Hamburg suburb . Six passengers were trapped in the car, the rescuers had to extricate them from the train, but none of them was hurt . In southern Sweden rail service have been discontinued because of the storm, the movement of trains is scheduled to resume only on Saturday, December 7. In the Netherlands, the storm raised the water to its highest level since 1953
    Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2013_12_07/254863566/
    7/12/13

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