On Saturday, more than a million homes and businesses across Europe were without electricity.
In Europe, at least 16 people have died as a result of the winter storm Eunice.
The death toll rose on Saturday at a time when efforts were being made to restore electricity to more than a million households and businesses across Europe.
Rescue authorities said the aftermath of the storm, such as tree falls, has resulted in deaths in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Poland.
British rail transport companies advised people to avoid traveling because much of the rail network was closed due to severe gusts of wind. In England, the winds blew at their strongest at about 54 meters per second.
In the Netherlands, too, the railway network was paralyzed by Eunice, and high-speed Eurostar trains, for example, were unable to operate from Britain and France due to damage to transmission lines. France and Ireland have also experienced disruptions in electricity distribution and rail transport. In Germany, Deutsche Bahn said more than a thousand kilometers of tracks had been damaged.
More than 1.2 million customers were still without electricity in Poland on Saturday afternoon. In Britain, on the other hand, electricity had been returned to 1.2 million, but 226,000 homes and businesses were reported to be still without electricity. On Friday, London announced for the first time in a weather warning the so-called “red level”, which means life-threatening.