At least 11 people died in Europe due to the impact of Storm Ciaránthat left million-dollar damages on half the continent due to floods and wind, more than half a million homes in France without electricity and hurricane-force winds fueling an uncontrolled forest fire in Spain.
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This gigantic extratropical cyclone – the most virulent in recent times in Western Europe – this Thursday claimed the lives of two people in France, two in Belgium, one in Spain and another in the Netherlands, to which five other fatalities were added this Friday in Italy, where there are also four missing.
Ciarán has kept half a dozen countries on alert for two days, causing dozens of injuries and has forced hundreds of flights to be canceled and rail services to be suspended or modified.
In France, up to a million homes were left without electricity on Thursday (today there are still more than 500,000), something that was also repeated on a smaller scale in Spain and the United Kingdom, and the hurricane-force winds, which even broke records, felled trees and damaged homes and other infrastructure.
A storm that raged this Friday in northern and central Italy, especially in the region of Tuscanywhere the situation is extremely serious, to the point that the Council of Ministers to be held this Friday by the Italian Government is scheduled to announce the state of national catastrophe.
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As Eugenio Giani, president of Tuscany, explained on social networks, The images left by Ciarán’s passage “are devastating”after the inspection carried out by helicopter over the affected areas of Campi Bisenzio, Prato and Quarrata.
In Campi Bisenzio, a municipality in the Florentine region where the situation is most serious and where the Bisenzio river overflowed in two areas, People had to climb on the roofs of their houses to get to safety. and ask for help, according to local media.
Since dawn, Civil Protection helicopters have been flying to control the situation and firefighters began to evacuate families from their flooded houses thanks to the fact that the rain stopped for the moment although the strong wind continues.
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Experts in the Tuscany region expect a strong flood of the Arno River in the coming hours, the peak of which will be as it passes through Florence and Pisa, with foreseeable flooding.
Meanwhile, In Spain, the entire northern and northwest strip remains on red alert due to the forecast of heavy rains and violent gusts of wind.
The wind is precisely fueling a forest fire declared on Thursday in the east of the country, which has already affected some 2,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of some 850 people from different municipalities in the area, in the municipality of Montixelvo.
The fire, whose origin is still unknown, is advancing uncontrollably, since the strong gusts make extinguishing efforts difficult; In fact, on Thursday not even the air means could leave.
During the night there were gusts of wind between 110 and 120 kilometers per hour in the area.although on Friday morning the wind speed decreased and it was possible that during the afternoon there would be “some window of opportunity” to control the flames, according to the president of the region, Carlos Mazón.
Just over half a million homes in France remain without electricity this Friday due to the effects of Ciarán, with the regions of Normandy and Brittany as the most affected, because there are places where the system was literally destroyed. French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Brittany this Friday.
For the weekend, another storm, called Domingos, will sweep through Spain and France, also with strong winds and rain, while the risk of flooding remains high in the south of England due to Ciarán, whose winds of around 160 kilometers per hour caused devastating effects in the United Kingdom, although “it is weakening”, according to authorities said this Friday.
Almost 90 flood warnings are still in effect this Friday and there are more than 235 alerts issued across the countryafter the damage caused by heavy rain and strong winds on the country’s southern coast and the Channel Islands.
Extreme weather is expected to continue across parts of Scotland and other parts of northern England throughout the day, after almost 150,000 homes were left without power on Thursday.
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According to a spokesperson for the Energy Networks Association (ENA), around 135,700 had already recovered electricity. A “yellow” weather warning remains in force in eastern Scotland, warning of the threat of difficult driving conditions, flooding and delays or cancellations of rail and bus services. as well as a small probability of rapid or deep flow of rainwater.
EFE
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