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"Everything Flew in Bursts, It Was Chaos": Corsica Crossed by Powerful Thunderstorms, Winds up to 158 Km/h Move an Airplane

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After the east and south of France, it is the turn of Corsica to be hit by violent thunderstorms, with gusts of wind at more than 150 km/h. This is the case in L'Île-Rousse (Haute-Corse), where if there has been no victim, the damage is significant and where the wind has even moved an aircraft to the tarmac of an airport.

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After the east and south of France, it is the turn of Corsica to be hit by violent thunderstorms, with gusts of wind at more than 150 km/h. This is the case in L'Île-Rousse (Haute-Corse), where if there has been no victim, the damage is significant and where the wind has even moved an aircraft to the tarmac of an airport.

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A storm swept through Corsica on Thursday late in the afternoon with violent gusts of wind reaching 160 km/h. To such an extent that the storm moved an aircraft to the ground, at Sainte-Catherine airport in Calvi.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Friday, August 29, 2025.
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