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Three deaths, serious problems in rail and road transport and widespread power cuts have been caused since the early hours of Thursday morning in Germany by bad weather in Germany.
Today the Federal Meteorological Office is forecasting new problems due to the storm, dubbed Zehnep. A man died when a trailer he was towing became uncoupled, causing a collision with a truck.
In Saxony-Anhalt, a 55-year-old man was killed when a tree was uprooted by strong winds and crashed into his car, which overturned while he was driving. A 37-year-old man was similarly killed in Lower Saxony.
In total, six people were killed in Europe by Hylenia: two construction workers in Poland and two technicians were seriously injured when lightning struck the crane they were operating. A man in western Poland was killed when a tree fell on his car. Hundreds of services have been cancelled and there are delays in the schedule. Traffic was interrupted on many roads due to falling trees.
In Berlin, the violent storm damaged the Charite University Hospital building, but there were no injuries. In North Rhine-Westphalia, more than 54,000 households were left without electricity, as were 10,000 households in Bavaria, due to trees falling on power lines.
In most cases, the supply was restored within hours, private television station n-tv reported. Due to the ongoing bad weather, schools in North Rhine-Westphalia remained closed yesterday and will not be open today.
In Berlin, authorities have announced that it will not be compulsory for pupils to attend classes physically due to the weather conditions. Problems with train services are expected to continue until tomorrow, Saturday, German Railways said on Twitter. In northern and northeastern Germany, high-speed trains have been out of service for the past 24 hours, affecting services to and from Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Berlin and Brandenburg.
In addition, Dutch airline KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, announced that it will cancel nearly 170 flights to and from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport today, Friday, due to bad weather conditions.
Storm Yunis is expected to hit the Netherlands tomorrow afternoon, with wind gusts of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The country's meteorological service has urged people to stay indoors if possible.
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