Storm Ciara has killed at least three people in Europe after already injuring several people, canceling hundreds of flights and trains, and depriving thousands of homes of electricity.
In England, a man was killed in his car by the fall of a tree on Sunday afternoon on a motorway in south-west London, police said on Monday. In Poland, a woman and her daughter were killed by a roof blown away by gusts of almost 100 km / h.
In Germany, where the storm was baptized Sabine, two women were seriously injured by a tree in Saarbrücken, a town bordering the department of Moselle. One was between life and death, police said at night, while a 16-year-old boy was injured in the head by a tree branch in Paderborn, Rhineland Westphalia.
On the transport side, the circulation of main lines, stopped since Sunday evening throughout the country, has resumed partly since 10 am according to the rail operator Deutsche Bahn. But the disturbances will remain numerous as the storm moves towards the south of the country.
In Frankfurt, a construction crane struck the cathedral in the city center, damaging the roof for several meters.
The UK is preparing in some places for icy winds and snowfall, but most of the storm has passed. "The Ciara storm is fading but that does not mean that we are entering a period when the weather will be calmer," said Alex Burkill, of the Met office. "There could be up to 20 cm of snow Monday and Tuesday and, with strong winds, we cannot exclude the risk of a blizzard ”. The day before, certain regions of the United Kingdom received the equivalent of a month and a half of rain in 24 hours and hundreds of flights were canceled.
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The “storm of the century” made the front page of several British daily newspapers. "In terms of land affected, this is probably the biggest storm of the century," with only the storm of December 2013, said Helen Roberts of the British met office.
In Norway , the storm, renamed Elsa, was expected to cause major floods at the start of the week in the southwest of the country. On the coast, the water could rise to a meter above the usual level of the tides with records expected in some places, warned the Norwegian meteorological services.
In the Czech Republic , where the wind has blown up to 180 km / hour, a man was injured by the fall of a tree on his car in the south of the country.
Disturbances in the sky. Hundreds of flights have been canceled in Europe, including around 220 on Monday morning to and from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, the third busiest airport in Europe. The storm caused traffic jams of over 600 km on the country's roads during rush hour Monday morning. In Germany, more than 700 flights were canceled in Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf and Cologne.
In Birmingham, England, an airplane had difficulty landing. Seconds that seemed very long for many passengers.
Very complicated landing for this plane today in #Birmingham during #TempeteCiara
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