Storm Eleanor (known as Cyclone Burglind in

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) was an extratropical cyclone and European windstorm that affected Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Benelux, Germany, Austria and Switzerland on the 2–3 January 2018. The storm caused extensive damage and traffic disruption. It was given the name ''Eleanor'' by Met Éireann and the UK Met Office, while the

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named the low pressure ''Burglind''.

Meteorological history

Eleanor developed to the west of Ireland as a secondary cyclone on 2 January to the parent low "Alja" to the southwest of Iceland, developing as a wave along the trailing

cold front A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air and lies within a pronounced surface Trough (meteorology), trough of Low-pressure area, low pressure. It often forms behind an extratropica ...

of the parent low. Eleanor rapidly intensified reaching a minimum pressure of as it moved east across Scotland under a strong westerly

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. Before the low centre tracked across the North Sea to Denmark. To the south of the central low Eleanor caused strong winds which covered a large footprint of across much of western Europe. The

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operational forecast model of maximum winds featured a narrow corridor of strong winds crossing Ireland and Northern Ireland, which they suggested could be indicative of a

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Impact

Highest wind gust per country

References

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Meteorological history

Impact

Highest wind gust per country

See also

References