A gust of 122 mph (196 kph), provisionally the highest ever recorded in England, was measured Friday on the Isle of Wight as Storm Eunice hit the region.
Gusts of up to 87 mph (140 kph) were recorded late Sunday on the Isle of Wight. The storms have left hundreds of thousands of people without power and triggered local flooding and evacuations as high winds ripped the roofs off buildings. “It was pushed onto its side as it sank into the water.”Īt least 14 people have died across Europe during a week of wild weather that meteorologists say is being fueled by an unusually strong jet stream over the North Atlantic. “With the wind, the car skidded,’’ Herve Bougon, mayor of Bricqueville-Sur-Mer, told the Ouest-France newspaper. The couple had called for help but it did not reach them in time. In France, a couple in their 70s died Sunday after their car was swept into the English Channel near a small town in Normandy. England’s environment agency issued more than 300 flood warnings and alerts and train operators urged people not to travel. Heavy rains and high winds swept across Northern Ireland and northern England on Monday before moving on to France. Storm Franklin pushed in from the North Atlantic on Sunday afternoon even as crews worked to clear fallen trees and restore power to thousands of customers hit by storms Dudley and Eunice last week. LONDON (AP) - Northern Europe has been battered by its third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds killing at least two more people, disrupting travel and prompting hundreds of flood alerts across a region still recovering from last week’s hurricane-force winds.
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