European Storms

Severe, hurricane-like storms have brought damaging winds and flooding to much of Western Europe. Hans Wendt alerted me in email on the 18th, suggesting that the REG data might react. "It involves millions of people, official alerts, suspensions of RR and air travel ... perhaps beginning with the storms on the Irish coast ... It's pretty upsetting stuff with its reports of many fatalities from the several Orkane of Windstaerke 11 - 12 (Hurricanes with winds of levels 11 to 12).

Disconcertingly, these storms have not been remarked in the insular US news, but it has been a major story internationally, notably in the BBC News, which reports that there have been upwards of 30 deaths, and much destruction. The winds in various places have reached 130 miles per hour as the storms have progressed across the British Isles, Holland, France, Germany, Poland and on into Eastern Europe.

The full day of January 18, UTC was taken as a representative slice of the time when the storms were hammering Western Europe. The Chisquare is 86945.978, on 86400 df, for p = 0.095 and a corresponding Z = 1.312. The graph shows a relatively steady trend during the 24 hour period.

European Storms


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