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Cyclone leaves 2 dead, thousands without power in Latvia and Lithuania
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- A powerful cyclone struck Latvia and Lithuania, causing two deaths and leaving around half a million people without electricity across the region.
- In Latvia, one person died in Jelgava due to a building collapse, with wind speeds exceeding 67 mph in Riga and significant rainfall recorded.
- Over 250,000 people in Latvia and more than 200,000 in Lithuania experienced power outages, with disruptions to mobile services, public transport, and flights at Riga airport.
- Estonia and northeastern Poland were also affected, with strong winds causing transport delays and power losses to over 100,000 residents in Poland.
- Experts noted that while the role of climate change in the storm cannot be fully assessed yet, it is plausible that human-caused climate change may have intensified the cyclone's rainfall.
