Other news outlets have reported potential damage reaching as far away as France and northern Spain, as wind patterns change.

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He cited a study by a group of European climatic institutes that reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in a region ranging from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south.

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