Cyclone Zeus Explained

Zeus
Date Formed:	March 6, 2017
Date Dissipated:	March 6, 2017
Pressure:	996mb^[1] ^[2] (or 991.3 hPa Ouessant ^[3])
Fatalities:	2^[4]
Areas Affected:	France, Switzerland, Italy.

Cyclone Zeus was an extratropical cyclone and European windstorm which affected France on 6–7 March 2017. The storm developed rapidly and moved quickly across France on a north-west/south-east trajectory from Finistère in Brittany to the Alpes-Maritimes then Corsica. The storm's rapid strengthening resulted in much stronger winds than initially expected, with a maximum gust of 193km/h recorded in Camaret-sur-Mer, Finistère.

Météo-France reported 7% of French territory experienced winds in excess of 120km/h, Météo-France described it as the tenth most severe storm to impact France between 1980 and 2017.^[5] The storm was the costliest storm of the 2016/17 winter across Europe.^[6]

Impact

France

In France 2 had been killed and 220,000 homes had been left without power as a result of Cyclone Zeus.

Switzerland

Italy

External links

Notes and References

News: Tempete Zeus: la plus violente depuis le début des années 2000 - Actualité météo. 13 November 2017. www.meteo.bzh. MétéoBretagne. 6 March 2017. fr.
Web site: 20170307Trajectoire. MeteoFrance. 22 December 2017. 3 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203065237/http://tempetes.meteofrance.fr/IMG/anthemis_trajectoire/20170307Trajectoire.jpg. dead.
News: Pression mer horaire Ouessant 6/3/17. 1 February 2018. MeteoFrance. 7 December 2017.
News: Two killed and 220,000 homes without power as storm Zeus lashes France. 13 November 2017. 7 March 2017. en.
News: France. Meteo. Bilan : tempête Zeus du 6 mars. 2 February 2018. www.meteofrance.fr. 7 March 2017. fr-FR.
Web site: Magnusson. Linus. Hewson. Timothy. 201703 - Windstorm - Zeus - Forecast User - ECMWF Confluence Wiki. software.ecmwf.int. 3 December 2017. 3 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064350/https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/FCST/201703+-+Windstorm+-+Zeus. dead.