The storm brought heavy rain and strong winds across northern Europe overnight and into Friday, bringing down trees and prompting flood warnings on the North Sea coast.
A woman in Belgium was killed by a falling Christmas tree, while another tree killed a person in the Netherlands.
A 20-metre Christmas tree fell on three people at a busy market in Oudenarde in western Belgium late Thursday night, killing a 63-year-old woman and injuring two others. The Christmas fair has been canceled immediately.
A woman who was hit by a falling tree in the eastern Dutch city of Wilp on Thursday later died of her injuries, her employer said.
Before the holidays, citizens are faced with the cancellation of train lines in parts of Germany.
Lines from Hamburg and Hanover to Frankfurt and Munich are affected.
National railway operator Deutsche Bahn announced that fallen trees damaged overhead power lines or blocked tracks mainly in northern Germany, but also in the central state of Hesse. The situation was improving on Friday afternoon.
In Hamburg, the Elbe river flooded the streets around the city’s fish market.
Streets around the port were flooded overnight in some Dutch North Sea towns, including Scheveningen, a seaside suburb of The Hague.
In the North Sea, the Norwegian cruise ship MS Maud was temporarily without power on Thursday after encountering a large wave. Its operator, Hurtigruten Expeditions, said in a statement that the 266 guests and 131 crew were unharmed and that the ship, originally bound for the English port of Tilbury, would be diverted to Bremerhaven, Germany, to disembark.
On Thursday, strong winds grounded flights in parts of the UK, suspended train services and halted Scottish ferries, Beta writes.
