Overview

• A lightning-struck tree crashed onto a hunting pavilion in Grandchamp, Yvelines, late Friday, killing a 68-year-old man while six others escaped unharmed.
• A branch felled by the storm injured a woman in Paris’s 5th arrondissement around 11 p.m., leaving her comatose at Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil.
• Friday’s severe weather put 28 departments under orange alert and prompted the civil aviation authority to request a 20% cut in flight programs at Orly airport.
• Météo-France has now placed eleven departments on orange alert from 4 p.m. Saturday, forecasting heavy hail, torrential rain and strong gusts.
• The gendarmerie de Houdan is investigating the Grandchamp pavilion collapse while local emergency services remain on high alert.