Storm Amy: A Man Drowned in Étretat, Another After a Tree Fell in Aisne

Two people died in France after storm Amy. A man drowned this Saturday 4th October in Étretat (Seine-Maritime) and another died in a road accident in Aisne, after violent winds linked to storm Amy blowing in the north of the country.

A 48-year-old man who went swimming in Étretat (Seine-Maritime) this Saturday 4th October 2025 in the morning could not be rescued due to the very unfavorable weather conditions according to the Seine-Maritime firefighters interviewed by l’AFP. His lifeless body was recovered at 4 pm at low tide, they said.

After 2 p.m. in Aisne, the fall of one “big tree branch” a vehicle driving on a departmental road killed the driver, a 25-year-old man, and seriously injured his passenger, transported to Amiens hospital, l’ learnedAFP from the prefecture.

The five departments of Hauts-de-France (Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Aisne, Somme and Oise) as well as that of Seine-Maritime are on orange wind alert on Saturday afternoon due to storm Amy, coming from the British Isles and which had already left one dead on Friday in Ireland.

Violent gusts on the coast

This storm “generates strong gusts of wind in the departments near the Channel coast and in the interior departments of the north of the country”, summarized Météo-France in its 4 p.m. update.

The most violent gusts since the beginning of the afternoon have been recorded on the coast: 131 km/h in Cap-de-la-Hève and 122 km/h in Dieppe, in Seine-Maritime. The wind also blew at 112 km/h at Cap Gris-Nez and 102 km/h at Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Pas-de-Calais. ” Inland, gusts reach 90 to 100 km/h, or even 110 km/h locally météo-france clarified.

Up to 5,000 homes were without electricity on Saturday morning due to the storm across the Normandy region, a figure reduced to 2,000 homes at 12pm, according to Enedis. But due to the strengthening of the wind in the afternoon, new outages have since been reported, according to the operator, who predicted a new assessment at the start of the evening.

Speed limits for vehicles on motorways and national roads have been put in place throughout Hauts-de-France by the regional prefecture until Saturday 8pm.

Mitigation of the storm, which also includes thunderstorms, remains expected in the early evening, according to Météo-France.