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Northern Europe is currently being hit by a major storm, which is moving south. Storm Sabine, or Ciara as it's called outside of Germany, brought down trees and powerlines as it lashed parts of northern Europe. Visit our © 2020 Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. In parts of the Black Forest, the highest level 4 warning was issued. Flights, trains and soccer matches were already cancelled. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Storm Sabine will hit South Germany on Monday afternoon. On the same day, around 150 flights to and from Frankfurt Airport were cancelled, according to its operator Fraport. Similar disruptions were reported at London's Heathrow Airport, Brussels Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol.Wind speeds on northern Germany's highest peak, the Brocken, reached 156 km/h on Sunday evening, according to the German weather service. It said an additional 75 million was being paid by auto insurers.Total insured property losses from Sabine/Ciara could be between 1.1 billion and 1.8 billion euros, catastrophe risk modeling firm RMS estimated on Friday. BERLIN — Storm Sabine caused insured losses of 675 million euros ($731 million) in Germany this month, the GDV insurance association said on Tuesday, making it the 6th most costly storm in Europe’s largest economy since 2002.Storm Sabine, which was known as Ciara in Britain, last week disrupted air and rail transport in countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Britain.The damages from the storm include 600 million euros being paid by insurance companies for 500,000 damaged homes, commercial and industrial properties, GDV added. In Bavaria, around 60,000 homes were without electricity after the storm caused a power cut.Long-distance and regional train services were suspended overnight across Germany, and commuters faced disruption as they tried to take trains to work on Monday morning with some services still canceled or delayed, with trains traveling at slower speeds due to high winds.In Germany's northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein there was meter-high spray from the North Sea at the ferry port of Dagebüll. Around 180 flight departures and arrivals — about 15% of scheduled flights — were canceled at Frankfurt Airport, a spokeswoman for the airport operator Fraport said, adding that 130 flights scheduled for Monday had already been canceled. At the time, no name was issued for the system involved. The event is billed as a Dutch version of mountain cycling.The national weather agency warned that coastal regions in the north and northwest may experience flooding as a result of rough seas and high tides. For 9 February, an amber wind warning for much of England was issued, with the rest of the United Kingdom remaining under a yellow wind warning. Both airports advised passengers that stoppages could continue on Monday. More Less Warning Environment Transportation Germany. ($1 = 0.9237 euros) (Reporting by Thomas Seythal Editing by Michelle Martin)Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.A welcome email is on its way. On 4 February, the Met Officeissued a yellow warning for wind for the following weekend for a potential storm, covering all of the United Kingdom. 09 Feb 04:28 PM UTC — Germany: Storm Sabine forces cancelations of 150 flights to and from Frankfurt Airport (FRA) February 9 /update 1. Despite the wet weather, hundreds of blazes continue to burn and many areas remain dry. It is the country above which the storm reaches the orange level of activity which imposes the name in the list of first names established at the beginning of the year in alphabetical order by alternating male and female first names. About 60 flights were canceled at Brussels Airport, including flights from Lufthansa and Eurowings.The Belgium football league postponed championship matches for Sunday.Authorities warned of flooding and storm damage in northwestern France. Trains are cancelled until at least 1000 (0900 UTC) on Monday.A sold-out Bundesliga match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Cologne was canceled in the western city of Cologne.   With Christmas celebrations at an end and winter well underway, many people in Germany feel the weather weighing on their spirits. The previous day, several class-2-warnings had been issued by the On 10 February, sea level along the Swedish west coast were the highest in 34 years, in some areas as high as 137 cm (54 in) above average. British Airways has offered to rebook affected passengers' flights. Dozens of events were called off as a result of the weather, including the Premier League football match between Manchester City and West Ham, and a German soccer league game between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Cologne. More than 30,000 homes in Britain, and some 10,000 in Ireland, were without electricity.Heavy rain pounded much of the UK, prompting the Met Office to issue 190 emergency flood warnings. Sabine (also known as Ciara in other parts of Europe) is expected to continue raging into the latter half of Monday. The storm also battered the city of Wimeureux and other parts of northern France, where parks, cemeteries and outdoor markets were closed. A storm system called ‘Sabine’ hit the coast in north-western Germany. Several injuries were reported, including one woman in critical condition in Germany after a tree fell on her vehicle. The UK Met Office said the highest wind speed recorded was 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour at the northern Welsh village of Aberdaron.