[2] By 9 November, while over Nova Scotia, the system was named "Carmen" as it passed into the North Atlantic[2] near and over southern Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, which had been suffering from the lesser windstorm Becky[citation needed] since the 5th.

[3] Traveling eastward, Carmen eventually attained a central pressure of 949 millibars as it struck the United Kingdom.

[2] At 06:00 UTC on Friday, 12 November 2010, Carmen was over the North Sea, east of Scotland, with a central pressure of approximately 965 mb (965 hPa).

[5] The storm grew in intensity, and a heavy band of rain hit Western Ireland on the morning of 8 November 2010,[4] then Wales and Wessex between 04:00 and 07:00 UTC.

[4] Minor flooding was reported in Oxfordshire over Radio Oxford, and the Channel Islands and Normandy's Cotentin peninsula were also hit.

[4] The heaviest rainfall was over patches of southwest Ireland, Pembrokeshire, Bristol, Dumfriesshire, Morecambe Bay, Carlisle, central Lancashire, Sussex, Surrey, parts of the English Channel, and Cherbourg.

His car skidded off the road between Rhode and Rochfortbridge, hit a roadside bank, and rolled on its roof into the flood-swollen water of the River Monagh on the 8th.

[5] Gardaí Assistant Commissioner Twomey said in a press interview: "Sadly, so far this year over 190 people were killed on the national roads.

He went on to warn of the hazards caused by decreasing seasonal daylight and a greater chance of encountering wet and slippery road surfaces.

[6] In England a major HSE rail investigation was launched after a morning commuter train skidded along Charing Cross to Hastings line on wet leaves.

The train from Charing Cross sped through one station at 65 mph (105 km/h); the terrified driver immediately contacted signal control center to raise the alarm as his train skidded down the track for 2 mi (3.2 km), after he braked when approaching Stonegate railway station in East Sussex.

[7] On the evening of the 8th, 28-year-old kitesurfer Adrien Monnoyeur from Toulouse ignored safety warnings and was killed as a gale in the Saint Jean de Luz resort, near Biarritz in southwest France, dragged him at 100 mph (160 km/h) across the beach and fatally slammed him down from 50 ft (15 m) in the air onto the beach, after hitting the Grand Hotel and a local pier en route.

A weather warning was issued for parts of south-east and south-west England, due to up to 70mm of predicted rain overnight.

[16] Another woman died in Pinderfield's Hospital after being impaled by a tree branch during winds of up to 90 mph in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

[17][18] Some had to evacuate their homes in this period,[17][18] and aircraft had to be diverted from Leeds Bradford International Airport when gusts reached 100 mph.

[17][18] The worst-hit places in this period were the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, Northern Ireland, North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber.

[21] A third weather band drifted up from off the coast of Brittany and hit southwest Ireland, Cornwall and Normandy's Cotinian Peninsula at 07:00 on the 12th, moving inland.

[4][22] In continental Europe, high winds caused the Karneval festivities in Cologne and elsewhere in the Rhineland to be cut short.

The St. Martin's Day procession was cancelled in Aachen and minor flooding and high winds occurred in various parts of Germany, but no one was injured.

[24] The River Dendre flooded Brussels heavily, reaching 46 cm above alarm level along with several canals on 14 November.

[31] Army rescue teams helped with emergency evacuations, including a hospital, as many of Belgian's roads were blocked or flooded.

[32] Despite the 4 deaths and heavy material losses involved, the Belgian government refused to take any responsibility for the state's lack of preparedness for flooding.

[30] In the east of North Brabant province, the local water board deliberately flooded fields the size of 50 football pitches to keep the river from rupturing its crumbling embankments.

[33] On the 17th, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to send aid to Cornwall, still experiencing heavy rains and gale-force winds.

[35] Schools were closed and the transport network was hugely disrupted with interruption of train services and motorists urged not to drive in Cornwall.

[35] By mid afternoon the rain had lessened and police and military worked together with a helicopter to rescue people from their cars and houses in Cornwall.

[38] A heavy mudslide near Lostwithiel cut off local roads and water completely surrounded the village of Mevagissey, which was evacuated.

[38] Pentewan residents dubbed a £1,300,000 flood relief scheme approved by the Environment Agency "money down the drain.

Prime Minister Cameron visited Lostwithial and St Blazey on the 19th, denying that he had misled Parliament when he said flood protection money had been safeguarded in the spending review.

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