Hurricane gusts expected: Where the storm "Antonia" will rage

Storm and no end: After "Ylenia", the hurricane "Zeynep" caused fatal accidents and damage running into millions at the weekend.

And with “Antonia”, another storm low is expected to bring hurricane-like gusts, especially in the north-west and west, on Monday night.

The long-distance traffic of Deutsche Bahn (DB) remains disrupted, especially in the north.

According to the forecast of the German Weather Service (DWD), the weather should not calm down again until Monday evening.

For the passage of "Antonia" from northwest to southeast, not only gusts with wind speeds of up to 115 kilometers per hour were expected, but also heavy showers and thunderstorms.

The DWD issued a severe weather warning for parts of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

In addition to storm consequences such as falling roof tiles, local lightning damage is possible.

Trees were also particularly dangerous, as DWD expert Adrian Leyser explained: Trees that had already been affected by previous storms and were standing in heavily softened ground could easily fall over.

The storm surge warning service said on Sunday that significantly increased water levels on the German North Sea coast and in the Weser and Elbe area can be expected again and again by Monday.

At least six dead in Germany

At least six people died in accidents during the passage of "Zeynep" and "Ylenia".

According to initial estimates, the two hurricane lows are likely to cost insurers more than 1.4 billion euros.

"Zeynep" caused insured losses of over 900 million euros, said the management consultancy Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK), which specializes in actuarial mathematics, in Cologne.

It was the most intense storm since "Kyrill" in 2007.

The company estimated the insured losses from storm “Ylenia” at 500 million euros.

Because of the clearing of fallen trees and damaged overhead lines, train passengers had to expect train cancellations and delays on Sunday as well.

The DB announced that there would be severe impairments until at least Monday afternoon.

There were no long-distance trains between Hamburg and Berlin, Berlin/Hamburg and Rostock/Stralsund, Norddeich Mole/Emden and Cologne/Hannover and Berlin and Amsterdam, it said on Sunday afternoon.

A reliable prognosis for the further course is not possible - also because of the approaching further storm low.

Since the beginning of the storm series on Wednesday evening, more than 6,000 kilometers of the route network have been unpassable, the railway said.

Since then, 2000 employees have been in continuous use, and there is still damage on 874 kilometers of railway line, it said early Sunday afternoon.

“Among other things, the railway line between Hanover and Hamburg is extremely affected.

Rows of trees were mowed down here and damage to the overhead lines was recorded for kilometers.” The second storm wave in particular had a dramatic effect, because more trees had fallen onto the tracks due to previous damage from the first storm.

"It looks devastating"

"Zeynep" had crossed Germany from Friday afternoon with wind speeds of locally more than 160 kilometers per hour.

The fire brigades counted thousands of operations, mostly because of fallen trees, objects flying around or damaged buildings - in North Rhine-Westphalia alone they deployed more than 12,000 operations by Saturday noon.

In Hamburg, for the first time since 2013, there was a very severe storm surge with more than 3.5 meters above the mean high water on Saturday morning.

In Bremen, a 55-meter construction crane fell into an office building that was still under construction.

"It looks devastating," said a fire department spokesman.

A passing truck was also caught by the crane on Saturday night.

The driver was unharmed.

In Bad Zwischenahn (Lower Saxony), a nine-meter high spruce fell on a clinic building.

17 patients housed there were brought to safety.

Nobody got hurt.

The North Sea island of Wangerooge lost about 90 percent of its beach in the storm.

"There is hardly any sand over a distance of one kilometer," said Wangerooges island mayor Marcel Fangohr.

The beach was also damaged on the East Frisian island of Langeoog.

"In parts, there is no longer a beach, the edge goes up to the dunes," said the island's mayor, Heike Horn.

One of the at least three "Zeynep" storm deaths was a 17-year-old who died in Hopsten (NRW) as a passenger.

The driver of the car had veered off the roadway.

A 56-year-old died near Altenberge in NRW when his car crashed into a tree lying on the road.

A man died in an accident in the Lower Saxony municipality of Wurster Nordseekueste when he tried to repair the damaged roof of a stable during the storm.

The 68-year-old broke through the roof and fell about ten meters down.

In the previous hurricane "Ylenia" at least three drivers in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt died in weather-related accidents.