Katrina-like hurricane hits Europe
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
Interviews
The source of this Wild Card:
Interview with David Alexander (August 2010)
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050+
Wild Card's description
Growing frequency of unusual events have increased expert's concerns about the potential for a major storm that could affect many countries at once or in turn. We have had these recently – in 2000 and 2002 floods in several European countries. Also tornadoes are highly underrated in Europe – these have happened (example the one in Birmingham), relatively small but we should prepare for a major one, which could result in a higher loss of life.
