Storm Eunice, which slammed into northwestern Europe, left at least 16 people dead in its wake, as well as extensive property damage and massive power cuts.
In Germany, "more than 1,000 kilometers of railway tracks were damaged", according to a spokesperson for the railway company Deutsche Bahn, mainly by falling trees, partly paralyzing traffic in the north of the country .
The peak of the storm has nevertheless passed and the alert (a level three on a scale of four) from the German meteorological services has been lifted.
Hundreds of flights, trains and ferries were canceled across northwestern Europe as extreme winds from Eunice swept through less than 48 hours after Storm Dudley (at least six dead in Poland and Germany).
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Saturday evening, there were 16 deaths because of Eunice: four in the Netherlands and as many in Poland, three in England, two in Germany, two in Belgium, and one in Ireland.
Many of the deaths are due to trees falling on vehicles.
In the Netherlands, in the capital The Hague, dozens of houses were evacuated for fear of the collapse of the bell tower of a church.
The Dutch rail network was disrupted and the Thalys Amsterdam-Brussels links interrupted, with no resumption expected on Saturday, according to a spokesperson.
In the United Kingdom, at least 226,000 homes remained without electricity Saturday at midday in the country, where insurers assess the damage at more than 300 million pounds (360 million euros).
They are 1.2 million in the same situation in Poland, according to local authorities, and several rail links are suspended.
Winds of nearly 200 km/h
In England, a gust of 196 km / h was recorded on the Isle of Wight, unheard of.
Among the extensive damage caused by the storm, a 400-year-old tree fell on a house in Essex, west London.
"I heard a crack and then a huge noise, the whole house shook," Sven Good, 23, who was in his family's home, told Sky News.
“I felt the whole roof above me, it was absolutely terrifying.
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The British Meteorological Service had issued a red alert level - the highest - for the south of Wales and the south of England, including London.
This is the first time that the British capital has reached this level of alert since the implementation of this system in 2011. In the north of France, around thirty injuries have been recorded in road accidents linked to the wind or due to falling materials.
Around 37,000 homes remained without power on Saturday morning and some regional rail links were disrupted.
Cross-Channel ferry traffic was interrupted, hundreds of flights canceled on Friday, road and rail transport affected.
The entire Dutch rail network was affected and only the Paris-Brussels Thalys were operating on Saturday morning,
In Belgium, according to Infrabel, after major nighttime repair work, most lines were in operation on Saturday.
In France, waves sometimes exceeding nine meters were recorded in Brittany (West) as well as gusts of wind locally reaching 176 km / h at Cape Gris-Nez (North).
While climate change generally reinforces and multiplies extreme events, the link is less clear for winds and storms (excluding cyclones), the number of which varies greatly from one year to another.