Story · 24 October 2026
BELGIUM WEATHER STORM
This story page gathers editorial photographs of stormy weather in Belgium, centred on scenes recorded in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026. Alongside them sit coastal images from elsewhere on the Belgian North Sea: a wooden pier at Nieuwpoort in heavy weather, with a man looking out to sea; sand lifted by the wind along the beach during a winter storm; the western jetty at Ostend, where a couple walks as the sea runs high; and walkers on the beach at De Haan under autumn storm clouds. Earlier material includes a Belgian landscape painting of a stormy sky above a distant church. The images are available to license on Fast Media.
See every image in this storyStormy Sky over Landscape with Distant Church, Jean-Michel Cels, Belgian, 1819-1894, Oil on bluish-gray laid chain paper, Belgium, July 1838, 6 7/8 x 11 3/8 in., 17.5 x 28.9 cm, church, city, cloud, cloudhead, clouds, cloudy, European, foreboding, grey, plein air, sky, storm, stormy, sublime,…
Liszt Collection · 1838-06-30
North Sea and wooden pier at stormy weather, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra · 2023-04-11
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Shifting sands blown up by the wind on beach along the North Sea during winter storm, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-12-20
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Shifting sands blown up by the wind on beach along the North Sea during winter storm, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-12-20
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
North Sea and western jetty during storm, Ostend, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-10-12
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Shifting sands blown up by the wind on beach along the North Sea during winter storm, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-09-11
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Man looking over the North Sea from wooden pier in stormy weather, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra · 2023-04-11
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Man looking over the North Sea from wooden pier in stormy weather, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra · 2023-04-11
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Koppel wandelt op het Westerstaketsel tijdens storm, Oostende, België Couple walking on the western jetty during storm, Ostend, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-10-12
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Brussels, Belgium, on September 3, 2020: Nicolas Sarkozy signing copies of his book Le temps des tempetes (The Time of Storm), Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Europe, Western Europe, Belgium
Monasse T/Andia.fr · 2020-09-02
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Brussels, Belgium, on September 3, 2020: Nicolas Sarkozy signing copies of his book Le temps des tempetes (The Time of Storm), Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Europe, Western Europe, Belgium
Monasse T/Andia.fr · 2020-09-02
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Walkers, North Sea beach, stormy sea, stormy clouds during an autumn storm, De Haan, Flanders, Belgium
Jochen Tack · 2013-11-09
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Block of flats and beach during storm at sea, Ostend, Belgium
Arterra/Johan De Meester · 2009-11-03
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
MDK test dyke equipped with sensors to measure wave overtopping during storms on beach along the North Sea coast at Raversijde, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2025-04-29
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Threatening storm clouds over the raised bog... High Fens (Eifel), world-famous nature reserve in the High Eifel on the border between Belgium and Germany, one of the largest intact raised bogs, habitat of numerous endangered species, native wildlife, nature
wunderbare Erde Gordana & Ralf Kistowski · 2025-06-13
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Trailing suction hopper dredger at sea and pipeline for sand replenishment, beach nourishment to reduce storm damage along the Belgian coast
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-12-05
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Bulldozer used for sand replenishment, beach nourishment to make wider beaches to reduce storm damage to coastal structures along the Belgian coast
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-12-20
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Bulldozer used for sand replenishment, beach nourishment to make wider beaches to reduce storm damage to coastal structures along the Belgian coast
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-12-20
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
Lightning during thunderstorm above petrochemical industry in the Antwerp harbour at night, Belgium
alimdi / Arterra / Philippe Clément · 2023-09-25
This image shows stormy weather in Oostende on Friday 23 October 2026
KURT DESPLENTER · 2026-10-22
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