Watch: Baby monitor captures moment window blown in during Storm Ciarán

All flights from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney airports on Thursday have been cancelled

Thu, 02 Nov, 2023 - 14:29

Josh Payne, Danielle Desouza and Helen William, PA

A baby monitor captured the moment a window was blown in by the wrath of Storm Ciarán in Jersey in the Channel Islands.

As Ireland avoided a battering from the storm, many places in the UK and Europe are feeling the effect with the Channel Island's seeing winds gusting above 100mph overnight.

In St Clement, Jersey, an astonishing moment was caught on camera via a baby monitor as a window was blown from the force of the storm.

People in Jersey have been evacuated to hotels overnight as wind gusts of up to 102mph damaged homes.

This was the moment shared on #BBCBreakfast a window was blown in, in St Clements in Jerseyhttps://t.co/cExxUKehGC pic.twitter.com/Hlu9ctAbgY
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) November 2, 2023

According to the BBC, Jessica O'Reilly was asleep at her home in when the sound of the storm woke her. Moments later her window was blown inwards.

Damage to properties in Jersey meant some had to evacuate their homes and seek refuge in a hotel, with one woman saying hailstones “bigger than a golf ball” had broken her windows.

The UK Met Office said Jersey Airport had seen wind gusts of up to 93mph on Thursday morning, with Langdon Bay in Kent recording 71mph winds, and the village of Cardinham in Cornwall seeing 68mph gusts.

The French coast saw winds of up to 110mph in western Brittany overnight.

All flights from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney airports on Thursday have been cancelled.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) urged people watching the conditions to stay away from the coast.

A yellow warning for rain is also in place from 6am on Thursday to 6am on Friday for north-east England and Scotland, stretching up to Inverness.