World Desk, AnyTV, London
Published by: Surendra Joshi
Updated Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:12 AM IST
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Air, train and sea services have been severely affected due to Younis. Millions of people have been affected by this. Thousands of homes are out of power and the roof of London’s O2 Arena is reported to have been blown off.
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Air, train and sea services have been severely affected due to Younis. Millions of people have been affected by this. Thousands of homes are out of power and the roof of London’s O2 Arena is reported to have been blown off. According to the UK Meteorological Department, the storm hit the coast in Cornwall, western England. Due to this, tremendous waves rose in the sea. The roofs of hundreds of cottages were also damaged.
Due to the storm, the winds blew so fast that planes exploded at UK airports. Even the pilots had to postpone the landing. 436 flights were canceled in the UK. A live video of the storm’s impact on the runway of London’s Heathrow Airport has been viewed online by more than 200,000 people. In London, a woman died after a tree fell on her car, while a man died in Liverpool after debris fell on his car.
Another person has died after a vehicle collided with a fallen tree in the southern English county of Hampshire. Three people died in the Netherlands after falling trees. A crane fell on the roof of a hospital in Belgium due to strong winds. A British man died after falling from a boat into the water.
Waves as high as some homes in Wales. More than 100,000 people were hit by power cuts as power lines were snapped and old trees were uprooted. Frank Saunders, Chief Scientist of the Meteorological Department, said that due to Eunice, winds gusted 122 miles, or 196 kilometers per hour. The British Meteorological Department has called it the fastest speed of a storm so far. Winds typically run at 140 to 180 kilometers per hour during major Category III storms in the Atlantic Sea. Northern and central Europe faced two storms this week. Younis is wreaking havoc right now, so before this, Dudley shook.