Videos showing the damage caused by Storm Ciaran in Brest, northwestern France, on November 1 and 2 are circulating on social media. A witness posted a video, published at 4:03 am, showing the arm of a crane giving way under the force of the wind on the Cerdan islet construction site, reported the regional paper Ouest-France.

According to the French weather authority Météo France, wind gusts reached exceptional levels in Brittany, with many records broken: 193 km/h at Plougonvelin, 171 km/h at Lanvéoc, 163 km/h at Landivisiau, 156 km/h at Brest, 147 km/h at Quimper, and 148 km/h at Lorient.