2022–23 European windstorm season

For example, in the Western Group, consisting of the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, a storm is named if one of the meteorological agencies in those countries issues an orange warning (amber in the UK), which generally requires a likelihood of widespread sustained wind speeds greater than 65 km/h, or widespread wind gust speeds over 110 km/h.

The meteorological offices produced a full list of names for 2015–2016 through 2017–2018, common to both the United Kingdom and Ireland, with the Netherlands taking part from 2019 onwards.

[22][23][24] In Manteigas, under a "state of calamity" at the time, following intense summer forest fires in nearby areas of the Serra da Estrela mountain range, floods and landslides caused major damage.

[46] The storm impacted Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia and Russia on 16–17 October, uprooting trees, damaging houses, and causing power outages.

[61] Heavy rainfall and strong winds were reported widely, resulting in some flooding and structural damage,[62][63] and flights were disrupted at Heathrow Airport for several hours.

[64] A small girl was injured by a disjointed gate in a severe wind gust,[60] On 27 October, the storm tracked north towards Iceland and dissipated.

[67] The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind for most of the south coast of England, stretching from Weymouth to Kent.

[72] Storm Cláudio hit the UK as a deepening low-pressure system, the lowest onshore pressure of 994 hPa (29.35 inHg)[73] was recorded in Plymouth at 22:00 on 31 October.

The centre of the shortwave made landfall in Southern Wales, near Cardiff, at around midnight – with the storm further north than had initially been forecasted by both the Met Office and Météo-France.

In the wake of Storm Cláudio heavy convective showers produced flash flooding and lightning across the Southwest of England on 1–2 November.

On the Adriatic Coast, storm surge and high seas flooded coastal areas of Emilia-Romagna Region in the provinces of Forlì-Cesana, Ferrara, Rimini and Ravenna.

[108] On 24 November, an Argentine tourist drowned after being swept into the sea in Furore, while a man was struck and killed by lightning on a beach in Vico Equense.

[116] Crossing the cold waters heading towards the Azores and the Iberian Peninsula, a powerful anticyclone blocking its path to higher latitudes, the storm quickly intensified thanks to the presence of an atmospheric river of subtropical origin associated with its southern flank.

[123][124] According to the Portuguese Civil Protection Agency, a government body, some 5,000 rescue workers were on duty across the country and authorities estimated the damage at millions of euros.

Winds of up to 150 km/h (93 mph) were recorded in the Pyrenees, toppling trees and cutting off electricity to 15,000 customers in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitania but without major damage or casualties.

[154] Météo-France has put 9 departments on orange alert in the south of the country, including Landes for "floods", and Dordogne, Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Aveyron, Tarn, Hérault, Aude and the Pyrénées-Orientales for "snow-ice".

[170] The storm caused flooding and it led to property damage throughout the Maltese Islands, including the collapse of a false ceiling at the Malta International Airport and a structure at Popeye Village being destroyed by a dislodged boulder.

[174] Storm Otto was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute on 16 February 2023 and the UK's Met Office issued yellow warnings of wind in northern Scotland.

[192] Heavy snow and large waves occurred in parts of Italy, Spain, and France, primarily Mallorca and the Belearic Islands.

[166] On 7 March, the Free University of Berlin began tracking a major low pressure system in the middle of the North Atlantic called Diethelm.

[196] It passed over England and at 00:00 UTC on 10 March, the center of Larisa was over the English Channel, extending an intense pressure gradient over all of France and the Cantabrian Sea.

On 13 April, the body of a 21-year-old man was recovered from Saltdean beach by the RNLI following an extensive search, which was prompted by the sighting of a person in the water near a groyne next to Brighton Pier.

[225][226] Also named Chappu by the Deutsche Wetterdienst and the Free University of Berlin,[227] it was responsible for at least fifteen flood-related fatalities in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy,[223][228] with the worst affected areas being Forlì, Cesena, Faenza,[229] Ravenna, Bologna and Rimini.

[255] On 10 August, the local government of Hamar floods the speed skating venue Vikingskipet to relieve the rest of the city.

[263] Seventeen people were confirmed dead in Greece, while neighbouring countries Turkey and Bulgaria respectively recorded seven and four fatalities.

[264][265][266] Extensive flooding occurred in the plain of Thessaly, in Palamas, Karditsa and the city of Larisa and hundreds civilians were rescued.

Early on 9 September, the system showed signs of subtropical transition; later on the day, the storm developed a warm core while an ASCAT pass recorded sustained winds of 45 knots before making landfall near Benghazi, Libya.

In Libya, Storm Daniel caused flooding in Marj, Bayda, Tobruk, Derna, and the Jabal al Akhdar district, as well as Benghazi, Susa, and Misrata.

[274] During the following days, heavy rains were reported in Istanbul on 28 and 29 September,[275] especially in Küçükçekmece, Başakşehir, Esenyurt, Gaziosmanpaşa, Sultangazi and Büyükçekmece.

Images acquired from a Sentinel-2 satellite showed large amounts of sediment washed away by floods as the Pineios river discharges in the Aegean Sea.

EUMETNET groups namings lists by colour