page_title: Cyclone Niklas
section_title: Netherlands
hierarchical_section_title: Cyclone Niklas / Impact / Netherlands
caption_attribution_description: Nieuwe Waterweg 31-3-2015
context_page_description: Cyclone Niklas, also known as the Lentestorm in the Netherlands, was a European windstorm that affected areas of western and central Europe with widespread disruption to air, shipping and road transport at the end of March 2015. The storm also caused forestry and property damage, power outages, and led to the loss of several lives.
context_section_description: KNMI issued orange alerts for Groningen, Friesland, the northern part of Drenthe and the Wadden Sea. In the Netherlands the storm brought serious handicaps in aviation and shipping. At Amsterdam's Schiphol airport 80 flights were cancelled. In Europe's largest port of Rotterdam two container terminals closed with ships remaining at sea waiting until the weather calmed down. The Maersk container ship MV Sea-Land Meteor ran aground near to Vlissingen during the storm before being refloated on the next high tide. Authorities later attributed the grounding to navigational error and low tides.
  On the roads the A6 road was closed for some time near Sint Nicolaasga after a truck was blown over, this was repeated on the A1 motorway where traffic between Hengelo and Apeldoorn was restricted to the hard shoulder. The Dutch Traffic Information Service (Verkeersinformatiedienst) reported that some 25 trucks and trailers overturned on the main roads across the Netherlands, the most in one day since 2007, when the Kyrill (storm) saw 30 blown over in significantly stronger winds, though conditions were not as bad as during the Burns Day storm 25 January 1990 when 130 articulated lorries, caravans and trailers were blown over on major roads.
caption: The Smit Elbe tug on the Nieuwe Waterweg during storm Niklas
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