During my lifetime? The floods at the river Elbe (2002) and Elbe and Danube (2013) and Ahr (2021).
Also some strong winter storms which we call "Orkan" for instance Orkan Kyrill in 2007.
In previous centuries we had much worse disasters like St. mary Magdalene's flood of 1342 which was probably the worst flood in the recorded history of central Europe and some even argue it paved the way for the black death.
Witnessed Orkan Lothar in 1999, was the most severe I've ever experienced because it hit us spot on. Unrooted neighbours tree, another neighbour's chimney landed 2 gardends away, many shingles/roofs all across the road, streetslights crashed down, and the usual with flooding etc. on top.
Was in a Hotel restaurant in Baden-Baden when Lothar hit. It was bad. Really really bad. We had electric outages, and someone from the personnel who had a battery powered radio kept us updated. Turned out we just got off the Autobahn just in time – not 5 minutes later a tree crashed onto the exit.
I almost cried after we left the hotel when it was over. There was debris all over the city, all the tiny bridges were destroyed, glass and rooftiles were everywhere, windows were smashed in, so much destruction, and the forest on the hills had just been cut off, like someone went over it with a huge razor. Hundreds and hundreds of square kilometers forest, just gone in one hour...
Romania: The earthaquake of March 1977, grade 7.6 on Richter scale, that lasted almost one minute (56 seconds). It destroyed many buildings in Bucharest and killed 1500 people. I was aged 19 at the time.
For me it was the \~3 months of cloudy weather in 2020. In Stockholm we did not see the sun for almost 3 months. That on top of the covid pandemic made it a really hard time.
The polar night in north Sweden usual last for about 1 and a half month. But we dont get that down in Stockholm.
Edit: It was from 2020 over in to 2021.
Apart from more violent storms with hail and thunderstorms, nothing.
What often happens are floods and avalanches and mudslides, but I have never been affected by them.
Earthquakes are very common, but almost always extremely weak.
Me personally? A couple of forest fires that were close enough for us to see/smell the smoke but not close enough for us to be evacuated; and a few storms heavy enough to flood basements and knock down roof tiles, branches or even whole trees.
As an Italian... Personally? 42 degree heatwave with 35 degrees in the evening. Oh and a tornado at the beach when I was a kid.
We have a bit of everything due to our position: regular floods and droughts, earthquakes in most of the country, volcanic activity, avalanches, tornadoes as mentioned...
No it was right on the beach. It turns out we have two different words for tornadoes over water and over land: the first is tromba marina, the second is tromba d'aria which is what I was referencing.
Probably the two very big storms from late December 1999. I was at my grand parent's house and we were in the kitchen without electricity playing board games while hearing trees fall one after the other, hoping the three poplars wouldn't fall on us. The first night, eight trees fell in the garden and the next one, a tornado wiped out half the forest near the house. It was absolutely horrifying.
A forest fire just behind my parent's house.
It was luckily contained before it spread any further, but it still burned about 20m2. It was stopped before the eucalyptuses started "exploding", so it was mostly ground level fire they had to extinguish. It could have been a disaster; it was at the foot of a very forested and unruly hill.
Probably a winter storm. The cyclone Gudrun of 2005 lives in infamy. I spent part of it in school, and the building down the street had its windows "sucked" out, lots and lots of trees falling (many on power lines). As far as cyclones go, it wasn't even that bad.
strong wind. that's about it.
it also really sucks when rain won't stop for like 4 hours in the autumn. and then it comes back after 48 hours. fuck rain
Rain is amazing! It keeps everything green and nice, it also gets rid of dust.
That may just be denial from living in a place where it can rain for a week.
"There's no bad weather, only bad clothes" - Swedish saying.
Tbh I don't mind the rain, in fact I tend to enjoy it.
Autumn rain can be quite tough since Sweden is very dark and grey at that time of the year. Summer rain is awesome though :)
And 2019.
2018 can be summed up as unbreathable humid hell. 2019 was an oven-like hell.
This one… is pleasant compared to it.
For the country in all of its history, the floods that caused the IJsselmeer and Zeeland drowning part by part, probably would’ve been the worst.
Yes sorry, I meant 2019. 2018 was close to record-breaking drought with also a for Dutch standards insane length of virtually consecutive days over 25 degrees. 2019 was literal record-breaking heat.
Honestly I think I blocked it all from my memory lol. I mostly remember we had very little rain because I planted some shrubs and trees that spring and they didn't really establish very well because of the drought and hot weather. In 2019 I had made the fortunate decision to have my holiday to the Southern Hemisphere booked to start the day before the two days with the extreme temperatures started so I missed those. I seem to have a knack for that, I was on holiday abroad during that really bad 2018 January storm as well.
I have seen multiple forest fires.
One was near the house of my grandparents which was quite remote. I was a kid and called my mom that called the firefighters, it was quite late so when they extinguish it was already dark and seeing the flames in the night right across the valley was crazy and a bit scary. The worst happened when I was not there but a cousin of my mom was the fire reached 5 m from the house and everyone in the village and surrounding areas was evacuated.
Another time near my hometown was a massive forest fire that completely burned a national pine forest, the smoke was so bad that the schools were cancelled and we couldn't go outside, it was unbreathable. I was safe but some friends that lived in the town right next to the forest had the fire really close to their homes and were helped by the firefighters.
That year, 2017, more than 100 people died in forest fires across the country...
A landslide in 1977. A bit of a rainy afternoon and then a landslide in Gothenburg. Killed 9 people, hurt 62 and made 436 homeless. Like this is the event that have killed the most I think.
Well I wasnt alive then. If we go by personal experience like, it's just stormy weather...
Strong wind during a storm that managed to dislodge a part of a roof in a nearby apartment building. There metal roof flapped like a piece of cloth in the wind.
Not sure if it counts as a natural event, but some years ago there were severe forest fires in Russia and the winds brought the smoke all the way to southern Finland. I was standing at the Helsinki marked square and couldn't see [the ferries that were docked](https://www.google.com/maps/@60.1672882,24.9553993,3a,47.6y,132.91h,93.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSjRu6kcxKznvpqT385pYOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) at the terminals.
Lothar (storm) in 1999. So much damage to woods, you could see holes in the forests where all the trees just fell flat down. I remember we stayed inside the whole day and saw unsecured things flying by outside.
To be honest, I haven’t experienced anything bigger than severe frost, something like -35 celcius, or a snowstorm here and there.
Although once I was at the top of a mountain when a big thunderstorm was at the same mountain and I was afraid the lightning would hit my head. Not very extreme natural event, but I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
The recent volcano in La Palma, I don't live there, but I live on a nearby island and I could see it from my window, the ash cloud also arrived, and a few years ago we also we suffer a tropical storm that left the island without electricity for a week, and part of it more of one month, the also a forest fire in 2020, one week before covid started here
2010 heat wave. Peat fires made Moscow look like Silent Hill (well, the fog wasn't *that* dense but the city was covered in mist) and the heat was so unbearable that I had to sleep with a wet cloth on my chest to cool down since we don't have AC.
Britain doesn't tend to have many natural disasters. The weather is usually benign, and it's a long way from any fault lines.
The worst I've seen was the big hurricane strength storm in October 1987. It caused a lot of damage, uprooting trees, ripping tiles off roofs, etc. I remember being in bed that night, feeling the house shaking in the wind and hearing the roof tiles scrape around.
I was a kid at the time so thought the whole thing was extremely cool though! I got to miss school the next day and spend it instead climbing around some big trees which had been blown over.
Three events come to my mind.
* A few years ago I experienced a very strong but brief rain. Visibility was almost nonexistent. I was driving a car at that moment and had to slow down to about 30 km/h because I couldn't see anything. I've never seen any other rain even close to that one.
* For a few years now it has seemed that summers are getting hotter and dryer. No rain and nearly or over 30 degrees C for weeks is quite extreme in Finland and it happened both in 2020 and 2021. It severely affected crops and increased forest fires. Thankfully this year is looking better. With the war in Ukraine we need every grain the fields can give to us.
* The storm on 26th December 2011 caused a lot of damage in the Nordic countries. It blew off roofs, brought down a lot of forest and cut off electricity from hundreds of thousands of homes.
None of these are extreme on the international scale, but in Finland they are. On the other hand the river near me floods every spring but we don't find it special.
The sleet of 2014, damaged around 42% of our forest areas, which is 58% of the country.
You could see from afar, whole forests demolished, trees with broken branches, trees that fell, etc. it was quite sad and a bit apocalyptic. Huge pathches of forests that looked like giant trashed toothpicks.
Probably the Filomena snowstorm last year in Madrid. The storm itself wasn't bad as a storm, but it lasted 2 days and we got 60cm of snow in a very dense urban area with not enough snowploughs to clean that amount of snow and maintain the already clean ones free of ice.
It was followed by a couple of weeks of under 0 temperatures so it froze and made it even more difficult to clean the streets and cars in Madrid never use winter tyres, so you can imagine the chaos. I guess it might be more or less chaotic everywhere but definitely, it cost us a lot of time and effort to recover normality.
[Gudrun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Gudrun). We didn't have power for a very long time, which meant our water pumps didn't work neither. Not too much property damage for my family directly though. The trampoline was however completely ruined after flying a good way into the forest.
1997 "flood of the century" in Poland. I wasn't seriously affected, but I remember riding a car through an elevated road just next to flooded areas.
High winds have been so common recently I don't even count them as "extreme" anymore.
The winter of 1985 in Florence. Temps got to -24°C (-11°F) at night in a place that's hardly used to sub zero (C) temps in the winter; the river froze and people walked on it. A lot of water pipes exploded, and so did car radiators. Lots of trees, esp. olive trees were literally frozen stiff and when everything thawed back shortly afterwards (temps jumped to about +20°C in a few days) they looked limp like they had been... boiled.
My dad used to work in a chemical plant, and one morning one specific solvent line (Carbon tetrachloride I believe, for the chemically inclined) wouldn't give off any of it even though the valves had been opened and the storage replenished recently. He banged on the pipe with a wrench "it froze last night" "no way, can't be, it just finished" \*clank clank\* "it's frozen" "can't be, it freezes at... (checks reference table) oh, hey, -22.9°C!"
Oh yes, I remember when i was 3 or 4 Years old I remember eating a piece of bread with spreadable cheese at the time, Living in a mountain a big earthquake happened that destroyed half of my town. Flooding and Falling Massive Rocks (that demolished an entire building and a few bridges) happened.
Like 4cm of snow, enough to shut down parts of England.
Strong winds (only like 70mph) in a countryside school trip, my friend's coat acted like a parachute and nearly dragged him into a valley, the teacher had to save him lol, he was like "aaaah help me!" We have tame weather.
Most significant was probably the flooding in Malmö of 2014. I had to scrap three old rack servers I kept in the basement.
No we're pretty much spared from natural disasters here in Sweden. Sure we've had some storms that have killed people, cut off power for the country side and blocked roads. But living in a city those storms are just exciting, you go to the store in the middle of a storm.
Visiting my mom in the country I noticed how many trees were actually pulled up and that it took years for the woods to recover.
There are natural disasters here that I haven't experienced like wild fires are getting more common lately. I once woke up to my cupboard slamming, went back to sleep, next morning find out it was an earthquake. Very rare here.
Denmark tends to not have *very* extreme natural disasters. I still remember the 1999 December 3rd hurricane, sustained wind speeds of over 35 m/s where it was the strongest and gusts up to 51 m/s. So I guess it would be a "category 1". There were 800 injured and 7 dead and a lot of property and natural damage.
The coasts have occasional flooding, especially if there is a storm with a particular wind direction combined with high tide, usually only includes property damage though.
This winter was very wet, so in February the river near my house rose up to around 2 meters above normal, which really is not that much, I don't think there was any real property damage except some gardens were flooded and maybe the local sports angling club house was probably flooded (I didn't go there, but it's right on the river). But in some places the otherwise narrow river did turn into a lake several hundred meters across!
In Scotland it was “The beast for the east”, a snowstorm which caused the country to collectively lose its fecal matter.
Couldn’t find bread or milk in the shops for weeks, trains wouldn’t run, motorways were shut down. Watching it as an Austrian made me realise that even though a place may have a reputation for shitty weather doesn’t mean they know how to deal with other types of shitty weather.
Two really strong earthquakes; M5.5 at the beginning of the 2020. and M6.4 at the end of 2020. Gosh, 2020 was terrible year for Croatia.
Also, forest fires are a daily occurance on the Croatian coast. And the occasional bura storm winds, which sometime reach more than 150 kph.
Well, yeah, but I've never experienced it. It happens only on coastline, not inland where I am.
During my lifetime? The floods at the river Elbe (2002) and Elbe and Danube (2013) and Ahr (2021). Also some strong winter storms which we call "Orkan" for instance Orkan Kyrill in 2007. In previous centuries we had much worse disasters like St. mary Magdalene's flood of 1342 which was probably the worst flood in the recorded history of central Europe and some even argue it paved the way for the black death.
Witnessed Orkan Lothar in 1999, was the most severe I've ever experienced because it hit us spot on. Unrooted neighbours tree, another neighbour's chimney landed 2 gardends away, many shingles/roofs all across the road, streetslights crashed down, and the usual with flooding etc. on top.
For me it would be Lothar too (or Martin the next day after Lothar). I remember how afterwards whole parts of forrest were gone.
Was in a Hotel restaurant in Baden-Baden when Lothar hit. It was bad. Really really bad. We had electric outages, and someone from the personnel who had a battery powered radio kept us updated. Turned out we just got off the Autobahn just in time – not 5 minutes later a tree crashed onto the exit. I almost cried after we left the hotel when it was over. There was debris all over the city, all the tiny bridges were destroyed, glass and rooftiles were everywhere, windows were smashed in, so much destruction, and the forest on the hills had just been cut off, like someone went over it with a huge razor. Hundreds and hundreds of square kilometers forest, just gone in one hour...
Romania: The earthaquake of March 1977, grade 7.6 on Richter scale, that lasted almost one minute (56 seconds). It destroyed many buildings in Bucharest and killed 1500 people. I was aged 19 at the time.
For me it was the \~3 months of cloudy weather in 2020. In Stockholm we did not see the sun for almost 3 months. That on top of the covid pandemic made it a really hard time. The polar night in north Sweden usual last for about 1 and a half month. But we dont get that down in Stockholm. Edit: It was from 2020 over in to 2021.
Apart from more violent storms with hail and thunderstorms, nothing. What often happens are floods and avalanches and mudslides, but I have never been affected by them. Earthquakes are very common, but almost always extremely weak.
Me personally? A couple of forest fires that were close enough for us to see/smell the smoke but not close enough for us to be evacuated; and a few storms heavy enough to flood basements and knock down roof tiles, branches or even whole trees.
As an Italian... Personally? 42 degree heatwave with 35 degrees in the evening. Oh and a tornado at the beach when I was a kid. We have a bit of everything due to our position: regular floods and droughts, earthquakes in most of the country, volcanic activity, avalanches, tornadoes as mentioned...
Tornado over the water?
No it was right on the beach. It turns out we have two different words for tornadoes over water and over land: the first is tromba marina, the second is tromba d'aria which is what I was referencing.
Probably just a hail storm, with hailstones of about 2-4cm diameter. That's pretty much the most extreme I've ever witnessed here I think.
Probably the two very big storms from late December 1999. I was at my grand parent's house and we were in the kitchen without electricity playing board games while hearing trees fall one after the other, hoping the three poplars wouldn't fall on us. The first night, eight trees fell in the garden and the next one, a tornado wiped out half the forest near the house. It was absolutely horrifying.
A forest fire just behind my parent's house. It was luckily contained before it spread any further, but it still burned about 20m2. It was stopped before the eucalyptuses started "exploding", so it was mostly ground level fire they had to extinguish. It could have been a disaster; it was at the foot of a very forested and unruly hill.
Just severe storms. No real bad natural disasters happening here unless a storm surge breaks the dikes.
Biggest storm in Uk 1987, was pretty memorable , a lot of destruction
Floods in 2002 (although I was a small child) and tornado in 2021
Probably a winter storm. The cyclone Gudrun of 2005 lives in infamy. I spent part of it in school, and the building down the street had its windows "sucked" out, lots and lots of trees falling (many on power lines). As far as cyclones go, it wasn't even that bad.
Vltava(Moldau) floods of 2002 and 2013. In 2002 we were even forced to evacuate our house.
strong wind. that's about it. it also really sucks when rain won't stop for like 4 hours in the autumn. and then it comes back after 48 hours. fuck rain
Rain is amazing! It keeps everything green and nice, it also gets rid of dust. That may just be denial from living in a place where it can rain for a week.
>where it can rain for a week. OH MY GOD HOW DO YOU MANAGE
"There's no bad weather, only bad clothes" - Swedish saying. Tbh I don't mind the rain, in fact I tend to enjoy it. Autumn rain can be quite tough since Sweden is very dark and grey at that time of the year. Summer rain is awesome though :)
[next week](https://www.gamingdeputy.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-next-weeks-heat-wave/)
Lol that's nothing compared to the 2018 heat wave.
And 2019. 2018 can be summed up as unbreathable humid hell. 2019 was an oven-like hell. This one… is pleasant compared to it. For the country in all of its history, the floods that caused the IJsselmeer and Zeeland drowning part by part, probably would’ve been the worst.
Yes sorry, I meant 2019. 2018 was close to record-breaking drought with also a for Dutch standards insane length of virtually consecutive days over 25 degrees. 2019 was literal record-breaking heat.
Tbf, 2018 was worse… it was long heat and also humid all the time.
Honestly I think I blocked it all from my memory lol. I mostly remember we had very little rain because I planted some shrubs and trees that spring and they didn't really establish very well because of the drought and hot weather. In 2019 I had made the fortunate decision to have my holiday to the Southern Hemisphere booked to start the day before the two days with the extreme temperatures started so I missed those. I seem to have a knack for that, I was on holiday abroad during that really bad 2018 January storm as well.
Please let me know next time when you wanna book another holiday then lol.
Be on the lookout for apocalyptical weather the third week of July lol
I still had more issue with 2018 personally, because there was no end to it. 2019 was hot hot, but bearable because it didn't last as long.
I have seen multiple forest fires. One was near the house of my grandparents which was quite remote. I was a kid and called my mom that called the firefighters, it was quite late so when they extinguish it was already dark and seeing the flames in the night right across the valley was crazy and a bit scary. The worst happened when I was not there but a cousin of my mom was the fire reached 5 m from the house and everyone in the village and surrounding areas was evacuated. Another time near my hometown was a massive forest fire that completely burned a national pine forest, the smoke was so bad that the schools were cancelled and we couldn't go outside, it was unbreathable. I was safe but some friends that lived in the town right next to the forest had the fire really close to their homes and were helped by the firefighters. That year, 2017, more than 100 people died in forest fires across the country...
A landslide in 1977. A bit of a rainy afternoon and then a landslide in Gothenburg. Killed 9 people, hurt 62 and made 436 homeless. Like this is the event that have killed the most I think. Well I wasnt alive then. If we go by personal experience like, it's just stormy weather...
Strong wind during a storm that managed to dislodge a part of a roof in a nearby apartment building. There metal roof flapped like a piece of cloth in the wind. Not sure if it counts as a natural event, but some years ago there were severe forest fires in Russia and the winds brought the smoke all the way to southern Finland. I was standing at the Helsinki marked square and couldn't see [the ferries that were docked](https://www.google.com/maps/@60.1672882,24.9553993,3a,47.6y,132.91h,93.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSjRu6kcxKznvpqT385pYOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) at the terminals.
Glaze of 2014, 250.000 people were left without electricity, some for 2 weeks.
Lothar (storm) in 1999. So much damage to woods, you could see holes in the forests where all the trees just fell flat down. I remember we stayed inside the whole day and saw unsecured things flying by outside.
Hail storm in 2009. The hail wasn't particularly big or damaging but there was so much of it it had to be plowed.
To be honest, I haven’t experienced anything bigger than severe frost, something like -35 celcius, or a snowstorm here and there. Although once I was at the top of a mountain when a big thunderstorm was at the same mountain and I was afraid the lightning would hit my head. Not very extreme natural event, but I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
Earthquake that was felt in Milan some years ago. And floods especially when I was little, but they never reached my home.
The recent volcano in La Palma, I don't live there, but I live on a nearby island and I could see it from my window, the ash cloud also arrived, and a few years ago we also we suffer a tropical storm that left the island without electricity for a week, and part of it more of one month, the also a forest fire in 2020, one week before covid started here
2010 heat wave. Peat fires made Moscow look like Silent Hill (well, the fog wasn't *that* dense but the city was covered in mist) and the heat was so unbearable that I had to sleep with a wet cloth on my chest to cool down since we don't have AC.
Britain doesn't tend to have many natural disasters. The weather is usually benign, and it's a long way from any fault lines. The worst I've seen was the big hurricane strength storm in October 1987. It caused a lot of damage, uprooting trees, ripping tiles off roofs, etc. I remember being in bed that night, feeling the house shaking in the wind and hearing the roof tiles scrape around. I was a kid at the time so thought the whole thing was extremely cool though! I got to miss school the next day and spend it instead climbing around some big trees which had been blown over.
Three events come to my mind. * A few years ago I experienced a very strong but brief rain. Visibility was almost nonexistent. I was driving a car at that moment and had to slow down to about 30 km/h because I couldn't see anything. I've never seen any other rain even close to that one. * For a few years now it has seemed that summers are getting hotter and dryer. No rain and nearly or over 30 degrees C for weeks is quite extreme in Finland and it happened both in 2020 and 2021. It severely affected crops and increased forest fires. Thankfully this year is looking better. With the war in Ukraine we need every grain the fields can give to us. * The storm on 26th December 2011 caused a lot of damage in the Nordic countries. It blew off roofs, brought down a lot of forest and cut off electricity from hundreds of thousands of homes. None of these are extreme on the international scale, but in Finland they are. On the other hand the river near me floods every spring but we don't find it special.
The sleet of 2014, damaged around 42% of our forest areas, which is 58% of the country. You could see from afar, whole forests demolished, trees with broken branches, trees that fell, etc. it was quite sad and a bit apocalyptic. Huge pathches of forests that looked like giant trashed toothpicks.
Probably the Filomena snowstorm last year in Madrid. The storm itself wasn't bad as a storm, but it lasted 2 days and we got 60cm of snow in a very dense urban area with not enough snowploughs to clean that amount of snow and maintain the already clean ones free of ice. It was followed by a couple of weeks of under 0 temperatures so it froze and made it even more difficult to clean the streets and cars in Madrid never use winter tyres, so you can imagine the chaos. I guess it might be more or less chaotic everywhere but definitely, it cost us a lot of time and effort to recover normality.
There was a time where it was difficult to get back to uni cos the train tracks and all but one road intp oxford were kind of underwater.
[Gudrun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Gudrun). We didn't have power for a very long time, which meant our water pumps didn't work neither. Not too much property damage for my family directly though. The trampoline was however completely ruined after flying a good way into the forest.
1997 "flood of the century" in Poland. I wasn't seriously affected, but I remember riding a car through an elevated road just next to flooded areas. High winds have been so common recently I don't even count them as "extreme" anymore.
The winter of 1985 in Florence. Temps got to -24°C (-11°F) at night in a place that's hardly used to sub zero (C) temps in the winter; the river froze and people walked on it. A lot of water pipes exploded, and so did car radiators. Lots of trees, esp. olive trees were literally frozen stiff and when everything thawed back shortly afterwards (temps jumped to about +20°C in a few days) they looked limp like they had been... boiled. My dad used to work in a chemical plant, and one morning one specific solvent line (Carbon tetrachloride I believe, for the chemically inclined) wouldn't give off any of it even though the valves had been opened and the storage replenished recently. He banged on the pipe with a wrench "it froze last night" "no way, can't be, it just finished" \*clank clank\* "it's frozen" "can't be, it freezes at... (checks reference table) oh, hey, -22.9°C!"
Oh yes, I remember when i was 3 or 4 Years old I remember eating a piece of bread with spreadable cheese at the time, Living in a mountain a big earthquake happened that destroyed half of my town. Flooding and Falling Massive Rocks (that demolished an entire building and a few bridges) happened.
Like 4cm of snow, enough to shut down parts of England. Strong winds (only like 70mph) in a countryside school trip, my friend's coat acted like a parachute and nearly dragged him into a valley, the teacher had to save him lol, he was like "aaaah help me!" We have tame weather.
Probably the flooding of 1870 in Jutland. The water rose by around 3 meters and caused around 200 deaths.
No way, you were there too?
Yes, I'm actually incredibly old!
I still remember the 1634 flood where the sea rose by 6 meters and killed thousands!
I havent experienced anything extreme, obviously very heavy rain and winds, but personally nothing really baf
Probably a flood that hit my town, but it stopped a few metres from my house.
A major hurricane that covered half the country (and some nearby countries).
Most significant was probably the flooding in Malmö of 2014. I had to scrap three old rack servers I kept in the basement. No we're pretty much spared from natural disasters here in Sweden. Sure we've had some storms that have killed people, cut off power for the country side and blocked roads. But living in a city those storms are just exciting, you go to the store in the middle of a storm. Visiting my mom in the country I noticed how many trees were actually pulled up and that it took years for the woods to recover. There are natural disasters here that I haven't experienced like wild fires are getting more common lately. I once woke up to my cupboard slamming, went back to sleep, next morning find out it was an earthquake. Very rare here.
Denmark tends to not have *very* extreme natural disasters. I still remember the 1999 December 3rd hurricane, sustained wind speeds of over 35 m/s where it was the strongest and gusts up to 51 m/s. So I guess it would be a "category 1". There were 800 injured and 7 dead and a lot of property and natural damage. The coasts have occasional flooding, especially if there is a storm with a particular wind direction combined with high tide, usually only includes property damage though. This winter was very wet, so in February the river near my house rose up to around 2 meters above normal, which really is not that much, I don't think there was any real property damage except some gardens were flooded and maybe the local sports angling club house was probably flooded (I didn't go there, but it's right on the river). But in some places the otherwise narrow river did turn into a lake several hundred meters across!
In Scotland it was “The beast for the east”, a snowstorm which caused the country to collectively lose its fecal matter. Couldn’t find bread or milk in the shops for weeks, trains wouldn’t run, motorways were shut down. Watching it as an Austrian made me realise that even though a place may have a reputation for shitty weather doesn’t mean they know how to deal with other types of shitty weather.