A powerful storm system, named "Goretti" by Météo-France, moved across the United Kingdom and France on Friday, leaving downed trees and power cuts affecting nearly half a million customers.
The storm also spread snow across parts of Great Britain.
The worst of the 55,000 U.K. power outages were in the southwest at Cornwall, where 73 percent of National Grid U.K. power customers were without power as of Friday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.US.
A weather station at Padstow NCI in Cornwall recorded a wind gust of 123 mph (198 km/h). One man had his home's roof ripped off as hail and rain poured in through cracks in the walls. Off the southwest shore, a peak gust of 99 mph (159 km/h) was reported at St. Mary's on the Isles of Scilly, the highest there since 1991, the Met Office said.
To the southeast, a 121 mph (195 km/h) gust was measured at Barfleur, on the tip of France's Cotentin peninsula. Winds were even worse in Normandy, France, with a wind gust of 132 mph (212 km/h) recorded in Gatteville-le-Phare. At one point, more than 380,000 customers were without power in France.
The storm affected rail services in the English West Midlands, as well as trains in France and Germany.
Travel and school disruptions in Scotland from a storm earlier this week were extended by Friday's storm. The nation was hit with 20 inches (51 cm) of snow on Monday, and many schools shuttered again on Friday, wrapping up a full week of closures.
latest_posts
- 1
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in Palisades Fire, is running for mayor of Los Angeles - 2Damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft to return to Earth uncrewed for inspection
- 3Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins
- 4This St Nick Truly Can Advise How To Drink And Hack Your Headache
- 5Which European countries have mandatory or voluntary military service
- Architect Frank Gehry has died: See his most iconic buildings
- 5 Advancement Developments in Biotechnology
- The Magnificence of Do-It-Yourself Skincare: Regular Recipes and Tips
- How Seniors Can Use Refunds and Motivators to Purchase a Hyundai Ioniq EV
- Netanyahu leads meeting on West Bank riots, Katz defends axing administrative detention for Jews
- Must-Sit in front of the Programs from Europe and the US
- Winona Ryder didn't take the 'Stranger Things' plot lightly. How 'otherworldly' grief and a kidnapping in her hometown informed her character.
- KJ Apa stars as Jimmy Stewart in new biopic: See his transformation
- 80 km. on foot: Sharren Haskel’s three-day march in protest of haredi draft bill
