London (CNN) -- Strong winds and heavy rain battered
Scotland and eastern England Thursday, disrupting rail and road traffic
as northwestern Europe braced for heavy storms sweeping across the North
Atlantic and North Sea.
Farther south, England was facing the most serious coastal tidal surge in more than 60 years, the Environment Agency warned. Residents in some towns and cities on the Norfolk coast were evacuating. In some areas, sea levels could be higher than those during the devastating floods of 1953.
The 1953 North Sea storm surge killed about 1,800 people in the
Netherlands and more than 300 in the UK, according to the British Met
Office.
Thousands of residents were being evacuated in the Great Yarmouth area in eastern England, Norfolk police said. The strong winds also hit electricity networks.
In Germany, the DWD
weather service issued high-level warnings for northern coastal regions,
expecting the storm to peak Thursday evening. It said arctic polar air
would stream into the country. Wind speeds of
up to 103 kilometers per hour (64 mph) were expected inland, rising to
140 kilometers per hour (87 mph) in the mountains.
In the Netherlands, KLM said it had canceled a significant number of flights to European destinations.
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