4 February 2014: Europe – Severe Weather

Site Navigation

Updates

Latest humanitarian reports, maps and infographics and full document archive.

Countries

List of countries covered by ReliefWeb.

Disasters

List of alerts, ongoing and past disasters covered by ReliefWeb.

Jobs

Open job opportunities in the humanitarian field.

Training

Open training opportunities in the humanitarian field.

4 February 2014: Europe – Severe Weather

Countries: Italy; + 5 more
Sources: ECHO
Publication date: February 4, 2014
Origin: View original

Situation

• In the last few days severe weather conditions (snow, low temperatures, rains, winds, high waves, storm surge) have hit several parts of Europe, causing damage, power outages and transportation problems.

• A new low pressure system has formed over the Atlantic and is moving towards Ireland and UK, it may reach these countries on 5 February. Strong winds, rains, waves, storm surge may affect parts of UK and Ireland, as well as parts of northern Spain, western Portugal and western France. (JRC Storm Surge calculations for 5 February, using as input ECMWF wind and pressure data, as of 4 Feb 00:00 UTC, are shown in the map)