page_title: Cyclone Tini
section_title: Meteorological history
hierarchical_section_title: Cyclone Tini / Meteorological history
caption_attribution_description: English: Synoptic charts of Tini/Darwin storm
context_page_description: Cyclone Tini was a European windstorm that affected Western Europe, particularly Ireland and the United Kingdom on 12 February 2014. The storm brought hurricane-force winds to Ireland and the UK with the Met Office and Met Éireann describing the storm as one of the most significant to affect Ireland, Wales and North West England in recent decades. Tini was one of the strongest storms of the 2013–2014 Atlantic winter storms in Europe, and also brought heavy rain across the UK and Ireland exacerbating the 2013–2014 United Kingdom winter floods, and may have been the most damaging storm of the period.
  The arrival of the storm coincided with what would have been Charles Darwin's 205th birthday, earning the storm the name Darwin, particularly in Ireland.
context_section_description: Tini/Darwin formed over the eastern USA on 10 February, before undergoing Explosive cyclogenesis as it moved across the Atlantic under the influence of a strong Jet stream during 11 February which stretched from the eastern USA to Central Europe. The storm developed as it moved eastward over the North Atlantic reaching a low pressure nadir of 952 hPa (28.1 inHg) to the west of Slyne Head county Galway.
  The storm developed according to the Shapiro-Keyser model, displaying frontal fracture. The storm developed a Sting jet. Tini brought hurricane-force winds to areas of Ireland, Wales and England, and brought some high rainfall totals over the UK and Ireland.
  Tini's cyclone centre shifted over Scotland to North Sea on 13 February, splitting into two as the main area continued to the Norwegian sea where it filled, a secondary low (named Tini II by the Free University of Berlin), developed over northern France. Tini II passed over Brandenburg and Poland into the Baltic Sea before being absorbed by the following area of low pressure (named Ulli) on 15 February before moving across Russia to the Ural Mountains.
  The Tini II low reached a nadir of 992 hPa (29.3 inHg) 13 on February over Saxony Anhalt, with peak winds reported in southwest Germany in Baden-Württemberg over exposed mountains and coasts, reaching gust speeds up to 137 km/h (85 mph) at Mindelheim Alpine Lodge. Wind gusts at lower stations reached 113 km/h (70 mph) at Dollenberg in the Black Forest.
caption: Synoptic chart of Tini/Darwin storm