A man in his fifties was killed in England after record-breaking winds from Storm Goretti felled a tree onto a mobile home in Cornwall. British police said the man was found dead in the town of Helston on Friday. The storm battered southwestern England and parts of Wales with gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without electricity. A snow and ice warning remained in place across much of the UK on Saturday, with authorities cautioning that black ice could cause disruption, particularly in Scotland and northern England.
At least 15 people across Europe died this week in weather-related incidents as storms and gale-force winds triggered transport chaos, school closures and widespread power outages amid freezing temperatures.
By the weekend, around 28,000 households in south-west England and the Midlands were still without power, while Storm Goretti continued to affect other parts of northern Europe. In France, nearly 100,000 homes remained without electricity on Saturday morning. In northern Germany, long-distance rail services gradually resumed after Storm Elli brought traffic to a complete standstill on Friday, though major disruptions persisted around Hamburg and the restoration of several international rail links was delayed.
