Cyclone Ulli then brought Bringing major damage Damaging and flooding Motion to Northern Europe during the early part of January 2012 .

Cyclone Ulli ( also named Name_conferral Cyclone Emil by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute ) was an intense and deadly European windstorm .

Forming Coming_to_be on December 31 , 2011 off the coast of New Jersey , Ulli began Process_start a rapid strengthening Cause_change_of_strength phase on January 2 as it sped across the Atlantic .

Ulli was the costliest disaster Catastrophe in January 2012 globally .

Ulli was one of many storms Catastrophe to affect Europe during the winter of 2011-2012 .

Ulli was followed Self_motion by Andrea which formed Coming_to_be the next day and struck Attack northern Europe on 5 January .