Nearly all coastlines of the French mainland are under severe weather warnings Thursday morning. The weather service reported wind speeds of 180 km/h along the Brittany coast
Pedestrians walk past a destroyed warehouse in Porspoder, western France, on Nov. 2 as the storm Ciaran hits the region.Winds up to 180 kilometres an hour slammed France’s Atlantic coast overnight as Storm Ciaran lashed countries around western Europe, uprooting trees, blowing out windows and leaving 1.2 million French households without electricity Thursday.
“It looks like a once-in-every-few-years storm for the U.K. and France,” Bob Henson, a meteorologist and science writer with Yale Climate Connections said Wednesday, adding that Ciaran could turn into “a once in a generation storm.” The weather service reported record-breaking wind speeds of 108 mph along the Brittany coast. The wind reached up to 96 mph on the Normandy coast and up to 90 mph inland. Waves of almost 33 feet were expected in the country’s northwestern tip.
“Stay out of dangerous situations,” the agency said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. `’A selfie in stormy conditions isn’t worth risking your life for.”
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