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UPDATE: Storms for winter 2013/2014 now added.
European windstorms are capable of producing devastating socioeconomic impacts. For example the windstorms Anatol, Lothar and Martin that struck in December 1999 inflicted 14bn USD worth of damage (Swiss Re, Sigma). Specifically, European windstorms are capable of causing power outages to millions of people, closing transport networks, uprooting trees, causing walls, buildings and other structures to collapse, which in the worst cases can result in dozens of fatalities (BBC News 1999 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 ,
Animation showing the track and instantaneous 3-second gusts at 3 hour intervals for the windstorm Kyrill (January 2007). The gusts are from the Met Office Unified Model at 25km resolution, generated by dynamically downscaling ERA Interim (Dee et al, 2011) Re-analysis data. The XWS 'eXtreme Wind Storms' catalogue is a freely available database of storm tracks and model-generated maximum 3 second gust storm footprints (both raw and re-calibrated) at ~25km resolution for 50 of the most extreme windstorms to h