A real hurricane in mid-October: the night winds at 216 km/h devastate the North West On the night of 15-16 October 1987, Brittany and Cotentin suffered a storm of exceptional violence; gusts of more than 200 km/h, measuring instruments and landscapes were disrupted in a few hours. Thirty-nine years later, this episode remained a reference in French meteorological memory. Behind the nickname of "the hurricane of 1987" was an explosive depression…
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A real hurricane in mid-October: the night winds at 216 km/h devastate the North West On the night of 15-16 October 1987, Brittany and Cotentin suffered a storm of exceptional violence; gusts of more than 200 km/h, measuring instruments and landscapes were disrupted in a few hours. Thirty-nine years later, this episode remained a reference in French meteorological memory. Behind the nickname of "the hurricane of 1987" was an explosive depression…