Storm day in Austria · 2023-12-22

Storm Zoltan in Austria, 22 December 2023

Zoltan, 22 December 2023: 70 Austrian stations below 1,000 m recorded gusts at force 9 or above, the strongest 145 km/h at Buchberg.

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

Station	Peak gust	Time
Buchberg 5735	145 km/h · Bft 12	12:10
Leiser Berge 67	134 km/h · Bft 12	12:39
Irdning-Gumpenstein 40	117 km/h · Bft 11	23:40
Wolfsegg 111	115 km/h · Bft 11	23:38
Mariazell/St.Sebastian Flugfeld 59	112 km/h · Bft 11	23:53
Aigen im Ennstal 2	110 km/h · Bft 11	23:41
Wiener Neustadt Flugplatz 112	110 km/h · Bft 11	13:17
Jauerling 193	109 km/h · Bft 11	23:41
Lilienfeld-Tarschberg 5625	108 km/h · Bft 11	22:41
Kapfenberg Flugfeld 217	106 km/h · Bft 11	00:27
Weyer 104	104 km/h · Bft 11	23:34
Kollerschlag 157	103 km/h · Bft 11	22:27
Bad Mitterndorf 10	102 km/h · Bft 10	17:48
Innsbruck Flughafen 175	102 km/h · Bft 10	03:49
Micheldorf 144	101 km/h · Bft 10	23:08
Schöngrabern 37	100 km/h · Bft 10	12:33
Wien Jubiläumswarte 5802	98 km/h · Bft 10	22:46
Enns 23	96 km/h · Bft 10	22:10
Gänserndorf Stadt 134	96 km/h · Bft 10	13:06
Waizenkirchen 160	96 km/h · Bft 10	23:38

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.

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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.