In the past two days, there has been extensive rain and snow in many parts of the continent, and many places in the south are as wet and cold as 39 hours, and in Europe on the other side of the Eurasian continent, the weather is not calm - the storm has swept through many parts of Germany from February 16 to February 17, local time, and torrential rains and strong winds have caused at least death in Germany, the power grid has been paralyzed, and flights and train delays have been caused. For example, two motorists, while driving in a strong wind south of Hamburg, Germany, were hit by trees blown down by high winds, resulting in the death of two passengers on the spot. On February 17, a fish market in Hamburg, Germany, was hit by flooding after heavy rains.
The culprit that caused the storm was a strong temperate cyclone, and on the afternoon of February 17, 2022, from the high-definition visible light satellite cloud map, the center of the powerful storm system has shifted to the air over the Baltic Sea after sweeping through many parts of Western Europe, and is continuing to bring stormy weather to many European countries. German meteorologists say they measured wind speeds of up to 135 kilometers per hour in low-lying areas of Germany.
But meteorologists also point out that this is not the peak of extratropical cyclone activity in Europe — in fact, a more powerful extratropical cyclone has already spawned in the North Atlantic and is sweeping across much of Western Europe on February 18, local time. At noon on February 18, local time (on the evening of February 18, Beijing time), satellite cloud maps showed that Europe was being enveloped by a huge storm system, which was the recent development of the temperate cyclone Eunice Eunice in the North Atlantic.
The Met Office issued the highest red alert on February 18, noting that parts of the UK were bombarded by rare winds, that more than a hundred schools had closed on Feb. 18, and that many sites had issued warnings of waves and storm surges, noting that storms in some areas could face flooding.
With the temperate cyclone Eunice has traveled to many parts of Europe, and the storm has been unfolding in the United Kingdom and other places, the British Weather Service's monitoring data shows that The Needles station on the Isle of Wight has recorded a gust of winds of 122 miles per hour, equivalent to 196 kilometers per hour, equivalent to a strong wind of 16 degrees, comparable to the landing of a strong typhoon, breaking the record for gusts in England.
With the arrival of the temperate cyclone, many parts of the United Kingdom are already being hit by storms, and the storms are spreading to more countries in Europe. Places like Germany, which have just experienced a temperate cyclone, will continue to face the threat of storms.
Then some netizens have to ask: Will this be a precursor to the cold wave on the mainland? The emergence of storm clusters in Europe indicates that the westerly wind belt is adjusting significantly – there is a tendency to oscillate northward, and in this trend, it is more likely to be a major recovery than a cold wave going south. But what needs to be vigilant is that this grumpy beginning also shows that this year's weather is not easy to deal with.