Storm Friederike
Storm David was a compact but deadly European windstorm that heavily affected the British Isles, France, Benelux, Central Europe, Northern Italy, Poland and parts of Eastern Europe in early 2018 with widespread hurricane-force gusts and severe snowfall, creating blizzard conditions in some areas. The storm caused…
The record
- Date
- January 15, 2018
- Ended
- January 20, 2018
- Kind
- European windstorm
- Where
- Central Europe
- Deaths
- 8
- Damage or cost
- 1,000,000 (as Wikidata records it, currency not normalized)
What happened
Storm David was a compact but deadly European windstorm that heavily affected the British Isles, France, Benelux, Central Europe, Northern Italy, Poland and parts of Eastern Europe in early 2018 with widespread hurricane-force gusts and severe snowfall, creating blizzard conditions in some areas. The storm caused extensive damage and traffic disruption. It was given the name David by Météo France while the FUB named it Friederike.
Sources
Wikidata Q47459321 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “Storm David”, CC BY-SA 4.0.