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Cyclone Xynthia, the Glossary

Index Cyclone Xynthia

Cyclone Xynthia was an exceptionally violent European windstorm which crossed Western Europe between 27 February and 1 March 2010.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 86 relations: Aigle, Ain, Air France, Altdorf, Uri, Andorra, Ariège (department), Île de Ré, Bagnères-de-Luchon, BBC News, Blois, Bourges, Brindas, Brocken, Bruray, Cantal, Cap Ferret, Celles-sur-Ource, Charente-Maritime, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Chastreix, Châteauroux, Châtelaillon-Plage, Chouilly, Coastal flooding, Cyclone Lothar, Deux-Sèvres, Eschen, European windstorm, Evionnaz, Finistère, Fontenay-le-Comte, Fouras, François Fillon, Geological Society of London, Gironde, Haute-Garonne, Haute-Loire, Hautes-Pyrénées, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Isère, Karlskrona, L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, La Dôle, La Faute-sur-Mer, La Roche-sur-Yon, La Rochelle, La Tranche-sur-Mer, Le Bouveret, Le Markstein, Loire (department), ... Expand index (36 more) »

  2. 2010 disasters in the United Kingdom
  3. 2010 in France
  4. 2010 in Norway
  5. 2010 in Spain
  6. 2010 meteorology
  7. 2010 natural disasters
  8. February 2010 events in Europe
  9. March 2010 events in Europe

Aigle

Aigle (French for "eagle",; Âgllo) is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Ain

Ain (En) is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Eastern France.

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Air France

Air France (legally Société Air France, S.A.), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.

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Altdorf, Uri

Altdorf is a municipality in Switzerland.

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Andorra

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south.

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Ariège (department)

Ariège (Arièja) is a department in southwestern France, located in the region of Occitanie.

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Île de Ré

Île de Ré (variously spelled Rhé or Rhéa; Poitevin: ile de Rét; Isle of Ré) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.

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Bagnères-de-Luchon

Bagnères-de-Luchon (Banhèras de Luishon), also referred to as just Luchon, is a commune and spa town in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Blois

Blois is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours.

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Bourges

Bourges is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre.

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Brindas

Brindas is a commune of the Rhône department in eastern France.

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Brocken

The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is the highest peak in the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak in Northern Germany; it is near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt between the rivers Weser and Elbe.

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Bruray

Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and contains Scotland's most easterly settlement.

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Cantal

Cantal (Cantal or Cantau) is a rural department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, with its prefecture in Aurillac.

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Cap Ferret

Cap Ferret (English: Cape Ferret) is a headland situated at the south end of the commune of Lège-Cap-Ferret in the Gironde department in the French southwestern Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

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Celles-sur-Ource

Celles-sur-Ource (literally Celles on Ource) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

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Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Chérente-Marine; Charanta Maritima) is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region on the southwestern coast of France.

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Charles de Gaulle Airport

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle) — also known as Roissy Airport (Aéroport de Roissy) or simply Paris CDG — is the main international airport serving Paris, the capital of France.

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Chastreix

Chastreix is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.

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Châteauroux

Châteauroux (Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges.

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Châtelaillon-Plage

Châtelaillon-Plage (also), commonly known as Châtelaillon, is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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Chouilly

Chouilly is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

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Coastal flooding

Coastal flooding occurs when dry and low-lying land is submerged (flooded) by seawater.

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Cyclone Lothar

Cyclone Lothar is regarded as the worst European windstorm recorded during the 20th century. Cyclone Xynthia and Cyclone Lothar are European windstorms.

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Deux-Sèvres

Deux-Sèvres (Poitevin-Saintongese: Deùs Saevres) is a French department.

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Eschen

Eschen (High Alemannic: Escha) is a municipality in the north of Liechtenstein.

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European windstorm

European windstorms are powerful extratropical cyclones which form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. Cyclone Xynthia and European windstorm are European windstorms.

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Evionnaz

Evionnaz is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Finistère

Finistère (Penn-ar-Bed) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany.

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Fontenay-le-Comte

Fontenay-le-Comte (Poitevin: Funtenaes or Fintenè) is a commune and subprefecture in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region of Western France.

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Fouras

Fouras, also known as Fouras-les-Bains, is a commune in the French department of Charente-Maritime, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Poitou-Charentes).

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François Fillon

François Charles Armand Fillon (born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Gironde

Gironde (US usually,; Gironda) is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France.

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Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne (Nauta Garona,; Upper Garonne) is a department in the southwestern French region of Occitanie.

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Haute-Loire

Haute-Loire (Naut Léger or Naut Leir; English: Upper Loire) is a landlocked department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France.

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Hautes-Pyrénées

Hautes-Pyrénées (Gascon/Occitan: Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus; Altos Pirineos; Alts Pirineus) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France.

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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal.

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Isère

Isère (Isera; Isèra) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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Karlskrona

Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018.

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L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer

L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer (literally L'Aiguillon on Sea) is a former commune in the Vendée department in western France.

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La Dôle

La Dôle is a mountain of the Jura, overlooking Lake Geneva in the westernmost part of the canton of Vaud.

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La Faute-sur-Mer

La Faute-sur-Mer (literally La Faute on Sea) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

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La Roche-sur-Yon

La Roche-sur-Yon is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

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La Rochelle

La Rochelle (Poitevin-Saintongeais: La Rochéle) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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La Tranche-sur-Mer

La Tranche-sur-Mer (literally La Tranche on Sea) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

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Le Bouveret

Le Bouveret is a village in the commune of Port-Valais in the Swiss canton of Valais.

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Le Markstein

Le Markstein is a winter sports station in the Vosges mountains in France situated at an altitude of between and which is located on the Route des Crêtes.

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Loire (department)

Loire (Lêre; Léger or Leir) is a landlocked département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France occupying the river Loire's upper reaches.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Marennes, Charente-Maritime

Marennes is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France.

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Météo-France

Météo-France is the official French meteorological administration, also offering services to Andorra.

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Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Moléson

The Moléson (French: Le Moléson) is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking the region of Gruyères in the canton of Fribourg.

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Mount Adamello

Adamello (in local dialect Adamèl) is a mountain in Lombardy, Italy.

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Nangis

Nangis is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Napoleonic era

The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe.

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Niort

Niort (Poitevin: Niàu; Niòrt; Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France.

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Nordborg

Nordborg (Norburg), is a town with a population of 5,729 (1 January 2024), The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark which was the seat of the former Nordborg municipality (Danish, kommune) in Sønderborg Municipality, Region of Southern Denmark on the northwest half of the island of Als off the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark.

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Oléron

The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island (île d'Oléron,; Saintongese: ilâte d'Olerun; Uliaros insula) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.

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Oron-la-Ville

Oron-la-Ville is a small town and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pic du Midi de Bigorre

The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply the Pic du Midi (elevation) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees.

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Piz Corvatsch

Piz Corvatsch is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, overlooking Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana in the Engadin region of the canton of Graubünden.

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Plešivec (Ore Mountains)

The Plešivec (Pleßberg) is one of the mountains over 1,000 metres high in the Ore Mountains of Central Europe and lies on the territory of the Czech Republic.

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Poitiers

Poitiers (Poitevin: Poetàe) is a city on the River Clain in west-central France.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Puy de Dôme

Puy de Dôme is a lava dome and one of the youngest volcanoes in the i region of Massif Central in central France.

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Quarten

Quarten is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, above Lake Walensee.

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Roissy-en-France

Roissy-en-France (literally Roissy in France; colloquially simply called Roissy) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, in the Val-d'Oise department.

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Royan

Royan (in the Saintongeais dialect; Roian) is a commune and town in the south-west of France, in the department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

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Sainte-Gemme-la-Plaine

Sainte-Gemme-la-Plaine is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

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Säntis

At above sea level, Säntis is the highest mountain in the Alpstein massif of northeastern Switzerland.

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Scillé

Scillé is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.

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Seawall

A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.

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Sněžka

Sněžka or Śnieżka (Schneekoppe, Snežka) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Giant Mountains.

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Soufrière Hills

The Soufrière Hills are an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

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Stavelot

Stavelot (Stablo; Ståvleu) is a town and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.

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Trailer park

A trailer park, caravan park, mobile home park, mobile home community or manufactured home community is a temporary or permanent area for mobile homes and travel trailers.

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Vaalserberg

The Vaalserberg is a hill with a height of above NAP and is the highest point in the European part of the Netherlands.

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Vendée

Vendée (Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast.

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Vienne (department)

Vienne (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Viéne) is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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Wincrange

Wincrange (Wëntger, Wintger) is a commune and village in northern Luxembourg, in the canton of Clervaux.

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Zugspitze

The Zugspitze, at above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains and the highest mountain in Germany.

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2010 Var floods

The 2010 Var floods were the result of heavy rainfall in southern France that caused severe floods in the department of the Var in the evening of 15 June 2010.

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See also

2010 disasters in the United Kingdom

2010 in France

2010 in Norway

2010 in Spain

2010 meteorology

2010 natural disasters

February 2010 events in Europe

March 2010 events in Europe

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Xynthia

Also known as Xinthia, Xynthia, Xynthia (storm), Xynthia (windstorm).

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