Northern Europe was battered by the third major storm in five days, with heavy rains and high winds, killing a more than a dozen people.
The Associated Press
In France, a couple in their 70s died Sunday after their car was swept into the English Channel near a small town in Normandy. The couple had called for help but it did not reach them in time. Gusts of up to 87 mph were recorded late Sunday on the Isle of Wight on Sunday after the U.K.’s weather service warned that Storm Franklin would produce widespread winds of 60 mph to 70 mph. A gust of 122 mph , provisionally the highest ever recorded in England, was measured Friday on the Isle of Wight as Storm Eunice hit the region. Hurricane-level winds start at 74 mph.
Insurance broker Aon estimated the insured damage in Germany from the successive storms at 1.6 billion euros . The Dutch insurers’ association estimated that the three storms caused at least 500 million euros of damage across the Netherlands.
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