{"id":692886,"date":"2026-01-13T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:26:10","slug":"atlantic-storm-to-bring-100-km-h-gales-to-brittany-and-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692886\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic storm to bring 100 km\/h gales to Brittany and Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check for weather alerts and any ferry cancellations from Wednesday<\/p>\n

\n The new gales come after Storm Goretti battered the English Channel. Archive picture shows Lesconil, Brittany, during a previous storm
\n BreizhPixelWeb\/Shutterstock\n <\/p>\n

Gales of up to 100 km\/h are set to hit north-west France on Thursday (January 15) as a powerful Atlantic storm passes through the English Channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strong winds will hit Brittany from the evening of Wednesday (January 14) onwards and grow progressively stronger before the brunt of the storm arrives on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cutting through the English Channel (where it will be most powerful), it will bring gales to Brittany, Normandy, and Hauts-de-France, as well as southern England. A separate storm will hit the western British Isles at around the same time.<\/p>\n

The image below shows the expected peak of the storm at around 16:00 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Inland, winds of over 70 km\/h are expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The storm has not been named \u2013 it is unlikely to be powerful enough for this unlike Storm Goretti last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is possible that the gales lead to cancellations or disruption to cross-Channel ferry travel \u2013 if travelling on Thursday, keep an eye out for updates with your operator.<\/p>\n

Thursday will also see heavy rains in the south-east and the potential for an \u00e9pisode c\u00e9venol in the Cevennes mountains, with up to 100mm of rain falling in 48 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is likely that both events will see state forecaster M\u00e9t\u00e9o France implement weather alerts, however these are not available until the day prior (in this case Wednesday). <\/p>\n

Our weekly weather forecast here<\/a> shows how the impact of both weather conditions will lead to a wet end of the week for most people across France, as rains move inland.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check for weather alerts and any ferry cancellations from Wednesday The new gales come after Storm Goretti battered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-692886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115887078373479086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}