Residents in at least four European countries will be cleaning up after being blasted by damaging winds from an unseasonably strong low-pressure system and several lines of severe thunderstorms associated with it Friday and Saturday.
Trees were felled across much of the country as winds gusted over 50 mph. The wind was particularly tenacious near the coast, where the country's official meteorological agency posted code-red wind warnings. The Hoorn-A oil platform just off the Dutch coast clocked a 78-mph wind gust according to official weather observation data.
The Dutch weather website Weer.nl says the storm is the Netherlands' strongest July windstorm since modern records began in 1901.
Germany
A line of thunderstorms swept northeast through much of the country Friday night, bringing torrential rainfall and numerous lightning strikes, many of them the more powerful but typically rare positvely-charged kind.
Top wind gusts reported in Germany Saturday included 58 mph in Munster, 53 mph in Paderborn, and 51 mph in Celle and Laage. Winds peaked at 48 mph at Berlin's Tegel Airport as well as in Frankfurt, and 47 mph at the Dusseldorf Airport.
http://www.weather.com/storms/severe/news/amsterdam-netherlands-germany-wind-storm-zeljko
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