More than 80 people have received emergency treatment and nearly a dozen have been hospitalized since the storm thundered across Catalonia in northeastern Spain, El Pais reports. Schools have been closed and around 100 departures at Barcelona's El Prat airport have been canceled.
In southwestern France, a truck driver was killed when a branch went through the windshield. Rivers have flooded and hundreds of thousands of French households were left without power in the evening, reports Le Monde.
Portugal has also been hit by the storm, which has a Scandinavian name. A motorway viaduct has partially collapsed between Lisbon and Porto, according to AFP.
The storm continued eastward during the evening, bringing strong winds to the island of Corsica, west of Italy.
