Kyrill was the name given to a
low pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent
European windstorm, forming an
extratropical cyclone with
hurricane-strength winds. It formed over
Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Ocean reaching Ireland and Great Britain by the evening of 17 January. The storm then crossed the
North Sea on 17 and 18 January, making landfall on the German and Dutch coasts on the afternoon of 18 January, before moving eastwards toward
Poland and the
Baltic Sea on the night from 18 to 19 January and further on to northern Russia.