South-west France is bracing for damaging ‘sustained’ winds, with two French départements placed on the heightened 'orange' ...

Right now, an extremely powerful jet stream is helping to spawn one massive North Atlantic storm after another, bringing hurricane force winds to parts of the UK, France, Portugal and Spain this week.

Forecasters have warned that southwest France is in for a weekend of high winds and heavy rains thanks to Storm Jana, while an 'épisode cévenol’ is forecast to batter the Mediterranean coast.