Overview
- Météo‑France kept 21 departments on orange wind alert Friday morning after placing Manche on a rare red alert overnight.
- Enedis reported about 380,000 households without electricity at 6 a.m., including roughly 266,000 in Normandy with additional outages in Brittany, Picardy and Île‑de‑France.
- Local authorities in Manche recorded exceptional gusts near Barfleur, with peaks measured at 213–216 km/h in the Cotentin.
- Rail traffic was suspended across Normandy from 10 p.m., TER services were disrupted in Brittany and the Hauts‑de‑France, schools closed in Manche and Seine‑Maritime, and major bridges and sites such as Mont‑Saint‑Michel were shut.
- Emergency services responded to widespread fallen trees, damaged roofs and downed lines, coastal flooding was reported in places like Étretat and Fécamp, and early official tallies cited no major fatalities.