Overview
- La Manche was the sole department under red alert overnight, with peak gusts measured at 213–216 km/h near Gatteville‑le‑Phare and a station record of 161 km/h at Cherbourg.
- Enedis reported roughly 380,000 customers without electricity by 6 a.m., mostly in Normandy, with additional outages in Brittany, Picardy and Île‑de‑France as repair crews mobilized.
- Rail and road networks were curtailed or checked for damage, including TER suspensions in Normandy, disruptions in Brittany and the Hauts‑de‑France, major bridge closures, and school shutdowns in Manche and Seine‑Maritime.
- Coastal impacts were significant, with wave‑submersion risk flagged, marine surges up to 1.5 meters at Dielette, and the Candhis network recording a single wave reaching 17.4 meters near Belle‑Île.
- By Friday, the storm’s core had moved on and alerts were downgraded, with 21 departments on orange wind vigilance in the morning and none remaining on orange for wind or waves by early evening.