With winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour and torrential rain, Storm Louis swept through France today, killing one driver who drowned in his car and leaving 90,000 households without power.

This storm is the strongest since the beginning of the year, but the effects do not have the intensity of the storms Ciaran and Domingos that last November hit Brittany, as a result of which three people lost their lives.

At the time, half a million buildings were plunged into darkness, but this time the power outage is limited to 90,000, especially in northern France, as announced by the operator of the distribution network Enedis late in the afternoon.

The 52-year-old driver was found dead in his vehicle after crossing a flooded road and bridge around noon, the fire department said.

“The strong current pushed him into the river. The car was found 100 meters from the bridge, where it stopped thanks to the trees. The man was trapped inside the vehicle and suffocated,” he explained.

As a precaution, some trains have been canceled in the Paris region, Brittany, Normandy and New Aquitaine.

Tomorrow Friday only one region of France, that of Paris, will be on alert for the risk of flooding, according to the weather service Météo-France.

Weather conditions will remain bad across the English Channel, up to the Belgian border area and into the western Pyrenees.