The remnants of Hurricane Kirk swept into western Europe Wednesday, tearing up trees in Portugal and Spain before dumping heavy rains on France that left at least one dead, reports FRANCE 24.
A storm swell in the Mediterranean off the port city of Sète in southern France overturned three boats, killing one amateur sailor and putting another in the hospital in critical condition, said Herault department authorities.
Some 64,000 people in the south of France were also left without power, network supplier Enedis told AFP, while several departments reported roads cut off by floodwaters.
Following a crisis response meeting in Paris, energy and ecological transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher told journalists the government was mobilising "all state services" and urged citizens to be careful.
"These episodes will have a tendency to recur. We're living at a time when climate change is making itself felt in concrete ways in our daily lives," she said.