Winds of more than 190 kph slammed the northern tip of France's Atlantic coast, uprooting trees and blowing out windows.
About 1.2 million French households were left without electricity on Thursday, electrical utility Enedis said in a statement. That includes about half of the homes in Brittany, the Atlantic peninsula hardest hit by Ciaran. Enedis said it would deploy 3,000 workers to restore power when conditions allowed.
A storm warning was issued for the North Sea coast in Germany, and a warning of high winds for part of the Baltic Sea coast. Authorities said that a 46-year-old woman was fatally injured by a falling tree in the Harz mountains in northern Germany. Simon Partridge, senior meteorologist at U.K. government weather agency the Met Office, said just after 1330 GMT that for England at least, “thankfully the worst of it is over.”
“Flooding of low-lying coastal roads is also possible and people must avoid driving through flood water, as just 30cm of flowing water is enough to move your car,” said the agency's flood duty manager, Ben Lukey.