{"id":604025,"date":"2026-08-25T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:56:11","slug":"moment-tornado-tears-through-southern-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604025\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment tornado tears through southern France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">A destructive tornado has torn through villages in southern France, injuring more than 40 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">An eyewitness from the village of Verzeille recorded the tornado forming beneath a thunderstorm. Winds of more than 100km\/h (62mph) ripped the roofs off homes in Pomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Local authorities say about 2,800 households were still without electricity on Monday evening, while several roads were blocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0m3npvpgdno\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 dGfqry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A destructive tornado has torn through villages in southern France, injuring more than 40 people. An eyewitness from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-604025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}