Wind gusts of up to 38 metres per second were recorded in western Scotland. Trees and power lines fell across roads and railways in Scotland and parts of northern England.
In Scotland, a man in his 60s died after a tree fell on him in the town of Dumfries on Sunday, Sky News reports.
People were also reported to have been injured by falling trees and scaffolding in Germany, France and Belgium.
Pier blown away
In Brighton, on England’s south coast, Storm Austen swept away part of an old pier that is no longer in use on Friday.
Across the English Channel, French energy company Enedis reported that around 288,000 households were without electricity on Saturday, when Storm Austen was at its most intense.
On Sunday, around 59,000 French households were still without power, mainly in the northwestern parts of the country.
In Germany, Austen left 10,000 households without power in and around the southwestern city of Freiburg im Breisgau.
The city’s largest hospital was forced to limit its operations and focus on emergency cases due to the power outage, which also knocked out the mobile network.
Cancelled flights
Hundreds of flights have also been cancelled or diverted across northern Europe.
At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, around ten departures were cancelled on Sunday. The same number of arriving flights were cancelled at the airport, which is one of Europe’s largest.
Air traffic was also severely disrupted in England and Scotland.
In addition, ship and ferry services in several countries were severely affected by the storms.
