Storm day in Austria · 2010-02-28

Storm Xynthia in Austria, 28 February 2010

Xynthia, 28 February 2010: 6 Austrian stations below 1,000 m recorded gusts at force 9 or above, the strongest 98 km/h at Innsbruck Universität.

European windstorms are named by the Institute of Meteorology at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Every station that recorded the day, placed where it stands. The circle grows with the gust it measured.

The strongest gusts measured that day

Times in CET (UTC+1) all year — the clock the archive stamps the day and the gust with.

Only stations below 1,000 m are counted: a gust on a 3,000 m summit says nothing about a roof in the valley.

Was this storm strong enough to count for an insurance claim?: Standard German conditions name wind force 8 — 62 km/h as a gust. The table on this page lists what each station recorded that day; if the stations near your address reached it, the measurement supports your claim. The check on your own address answers it exactly.
How do I prove the storm reached MY street?: By naming the station, its distance and what it measured — which is what a record about your address does. Stations are a median 11.6 km apart across Germany, so the nearest one is usually close enough to be evidence; past 25 km we refuse to sell a record rather than stretch it.
Where do these numbers come from?: The national weather service's own open archive. Every figure on this page comes from a station file published by the Deutscher Wetterdienst, and the paid record prints the archive file's address next to each number.