Two aircraft were blown away by storm Emma at Salzburg's airport, Austria, 01 March 2008. Storm Emma hit Austria with top wind speeds of up to 190 kilometres per hour in mountainous regions, killing four persons, three of them tourists.
Posted on 03/01/2008 6:08:19 PM PST by wolf78
A late winter storm raged across much of western Europe overnight Friday and through much of Saturday, with winds measuring over 220 kilometres per hour in places, leaving several dead, uprooting trees, cutting off electricity and causing a train crash.
In Germany, a high-speed ICE train crashed before dawn Saturday into a tree that fell on a track during a storm raging across Europe, and at least two motorists were killed in other storm-related accidents.
The German railways said the engine driver was injured in the collision at Bruehl near Bonn, but the high-speed inter-city express train, bound for Vienna, Austria, did not derail. Its passengers, who were unhurt, were bused to a station to continue their journeys.
The storm, code-named Emma by German meteorologists, lashed the northern fringes of the Alps. Winds ripped tiles from roofs and toppled billboards and gusted to 222 kilometres per hour on one mountaintop, the Wendelstein.
The high winds were accompanied by hail, flurries of snow, thunderstorms in parts of southern Germany.
A gust blew a motor-scooter rider, 20, into oncoming traffic, killing him at Oberpfaffenhofen, southern Germany. A falling fir tree killed a 58-year-old car passenger at Wissen in the west.
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Tornadoes are very rare in Deutschland.
All of this reminds me of the time the Maunder Minimum happened.
It’s the cooling because of the manmade warming.
Yes, me too, I'm old enough to remember it well.
If we humans have a "choice" to control the planet's temperature, why would we choose "cold"?
You know it’s really all because of solar activity.
That humans caused. Our global warming is messing up the sun. I’m sure.
Somehow it’s Bush’s Fault !!
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