wyspy: 2025–26 European windstorm season

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The 2025–26 European windstorm season was the eleventh year of the continent's coordinated severe weather naming programme. While the official list of names was unveiled on 1 September 2025, the season’s duration typically spans from the start of September 2025 through to 31 August 2026, with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean group, which the season begins on 1 October. This year represented the seventh season of collaboration within the Western Group, where the Netherlands Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) works alongside the UK’s Met Office and Ireland’s Met Éireann. To the south-west, the national meteorological agencies of Portugal, Spain, France, and Belgiu…

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Tropical cyclones are named for historical reasons and so as to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. They are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three-, or ten-minute windspeeds of at least 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards vary from basin to basin, with some tropical depressions named in the western Pacific whilst tropical cyclones have to have gale-force winds occurring more than halfway around the center within the Australian and southern Pacific regions. The official practice of naming tropical cyclones started in 1945 within the western Pacific. Nami…

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Elite Sport in the Nordic Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Elite sport in the Nordic countries is embedded in the distinct cultural, social, and political context of the Nordic welfare states. This explains the similarities of the historical development path of elite sport in each of the four countries, including the role of voluntary activities in local clubs, mass participation, and easy access to state-supported sports facilities. However, since the 1970s, substantial divergence has emerged. Currently, there are major differences in the way elite sport is organised in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively, although there have recently…

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Membership List for Automatic RF Techniques Group as of January 16, 1985

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Storm Goretti, known as Storm Elli in Germany, was a powerful and damaging extratropical cyclone that affected parts of Western Europe. The seventh named (using the south-western group naming list) storm of the 2025–26 European windstorm season, Goretti was named by Météo France on 6 January 2026. The storm was expected to bring extreme wind gusts, potentially reaching near 160 km/h (100 mph) to western Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, upwards of 180 km/h (110 mph) to the Channel Islands, and strong gusts to northern France.