Saint Marcellus's flood

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Saint Marcellus's flood or Grote Mandrenke (Middle Low German pronunciation: [ɣroːtə mandrɛŋkə]; Danish: Den Store Manddrukning, 'Great Drowning of Men') was an intense extratropical cyclone that killed at least 25,000 people and, coinciding with a new moon, swept across the British Isles, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark (including Schleswig/Southern Jutland) around 16 January 1362. The storm tide is also called the "Second St. Marcellus flood" because it peaked on 16 January, the feast day of St. Marcellus. A previous "First St. Marcellus flood" had drowned 36,000 people along the coasts of West Friesland and Groningen on 16 January 1219.

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