It is very rare for a hurricane/TS to hit Europe, they don't generally go NW. I don't know why this one is predicted to do so. They have storms of course, some of which are pretty serious, but they come from their NE. We hit two on our cruise around England last year, one was stated to have 85+ knot winds. That 100,000 ton cruise liner was bounding around a lot. The wood trim in our cabin was really making noise. We had two stops deleted because we couldn't get to land safely.