Red alert - Atlantic coast hit by storm "Alex" - 100,000 houses without electricity

There is still a red alert in France. Autumn storm “Alex” hit the Atlantic coast on Friday night.

Thousands of people are without electricity.

The weather service is now warning of heavy rains and floods.

• The

  weather

  * in

  France is

  putting people on

  alert

  .

• On Thursday night,

  storm “Alex” passed

  over the Atlantic coast.

• The

  weather service

  warns of falling trees and strong waves.

Update from October 2

: After the autumn storm "Alex" passed through, around 80,000 people in the north-west French coastal region of Brittany are without electricity.

Trees fell over in many communities and people were not harmed after an initial assessment, as the prefecture of the Breton department of Morbihan announced on Friday.

On the

off the coast of Brittany, gusts of up to

per

measured

according to the radio news channel Franceinfo

.

The French weather service Météo France had already warned of "Alex" on Thursday.

Heavy rains are expected in south-east France.

In the region around Nice, schools remained closed, as Franceinfo reported.

J'appelle les laurentins à la plus EXTRÊME VIGILANCE, les averses sont conséquentes dans le moyen-haut pays.

The phenomena de ruissellement et crues sont donc à craindre dans les prochaines heures.

Tenez vous à l'écart du Var et de la mer #AlerteRouge # Meteo06 #Alex pic.twitter.com/FnrQMbbSi3

- Joseph SEGURA (@JosephSeguraSLV) October 2, 2020

France on alert: violent storm expected on the Atlantic coast - effects in Germany possible

First report from October 1, 2020:

Paris / Munich - In

, an impending

people on the

on

.

In the night from

, the storm called

is said to

sweep over the coastal regions on the Atlantic

with wind speeds of

.

The storm could therefore be described

as a "hurricane"

in terms of

*.

The

announced the impending

on Thursday.

The region of

in north-western

with the cities of

,

and

particularly affected by storm "Alex"

.

In the

particular,

warnings are issued against very strong winds.

The

area is marked in red

on the

map

.

There is "absolute vigilance" at night, it says on the page.

🔴 1 dpt en #vigilanceRouge

🔶 8 dpts en #vigilanceOrange

Restez informés on https://t.co/rJ24zzmmy4 pic.twitter.com/djnRk0mVWY

- VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) October 1, 2020

In addition, the

warned of numerous

.

In addition,

also to be feared.

On the coast, the weather service warns of

.

In the

is especially on

with

expected.

In

, too,

could make it

uncomfortable, as

reported

 by

and 

on

: “The storm low makes a few 'laps of honor' over France, 'it says there,“ and brings it until Sunday sometimes large amounts of rain. ”The current

developments

in

can be found in our Germany weather.

In August, the low raged Kirsten in Bavaria.

Franconia was particularly hard hit.

There was even a warning from the German Weather Service for large parts of Bavaria.

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