Some 15 people have died in weather-related accidents this week across Europe as gale-force winds and storms caused travel mayhem, shut schools, and cut power to hundreds of thousands in freezing temperatures.
The storm barrelled through southwestern Cornwall and parts of Wales overnight Thursday to Friday, with gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour) downing trees and leaving tens of thousands of homes without power.
A man was found dead in the town of Helston in Cornwall on Friday after a tree fell onto a caravan,UKpolice said.
"Tragically, a man aged in his 50s was located deceased within the caravan," Devon and Cornwall police said in a statement.
Violent Storm Goretti brings wind, snow and disruption to Europe
Most of the UK remains under a weather warning for snow and ice on Saturday, theMet Office national weather agencysaid, warning that black ice could cause "disruption" in Scotland and northern England.
Heavy snowfall followed by the storm meant that some 250 schools in Scotland were closed for the much of the first week back after the Christmas break.
Around 28,000 homes were still without power at the start of the weekend in southwesternEnglandand the Midlands, according to the network operatorNational Grid.
Storm Gorettialso ploughed through other parts of northern Europe, with nearly 100,000 homes in France still without power on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile long-distance rail traffic slowly resumed on Saturday in northernGermany, after being completely suspended on Friday due to another storm named Elli, rail opetaorDeutsche Bahnsaid.
In the far north of the country, the port city of Hamburg, heavily affected by a large amount of snow, remains particularly impacted by the disruptions, it added.
A number of rail services will still not be restored on Saturday, notably those linking Hamburg to Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Hanover.
Services from Hamburg to the western Ruhr region or to Berlin are expected to be restored over the course of Saturday, it said.
(AFP)
Originally published on RFI
