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The storm that swept west and southern Tarn-et-Garonne on Sunday, May 4, 2025 in the evening, then generating a generous watering in the night, caused certain damage to the road network. The road service agents of the department were mobilized until Monday, May 5.
What water, what water! From memory of Lomagnol, we do not remember, in a recent past, with stormy rains as violent, fallen in such a short time in the canton of Beaumont.
It is a real deluge which fell on Sunday, May 4, shortly after 6:30 p.m., in the south of the capital and the municipalities of Faudoas, Escazeaux, Le Causé, Commerouger or Vigueron. Coming from the neighboring Gers, this stationary storm spilled between 60 and 80 mm of water until the first hours of the day on Monday.
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A watering that will make the happiness of mushroom pickers (although May is not the best period for porcini mushrooms and chanterelles!) That those of white garlic producers of Lomagne who are starting to fear a too rainy end of spring, a big month now harvest.
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The force of precipitation was such, Sunday evening in the Beaumont sector, that the slightest stream turned into a mud torrent, obstructing the ditches and sometimes cutting traffic lanes. The agents of the road service of the Departmental Council were not unemployed. “On the evening of Sunday and until this morning on Monday, we had to intervene for falls of trees and mudslides on several departmental roads,” said Eric Bénech. And the deputy director general of the Technical and Territories Pole of listing the roads impacted by these bad weather: RD 3 in Beaumont, RD 7 in Brassac, RD 26 in Verdun-sur-Garonne, RD 35 in Monclar-de-Quercy, RD 26 in Cordes-Tolosannes, RD 25 in Marsac, RD 12 in Donzac and RD 928 in Montech.
If most of the precipitation has been noted in Lomagne, other sectors in our department have been affected by this stormy cell: the weather station France in Savenès raised 38.4 mm of rain over 24 hours. Verdun, Montech, Quercy Caussadais and part of the two-Rives were also copiously watered. In Montauban, it was of course the big downpour of hailstone fell shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday that made the spirits.
What to expect in the coming days? “Tuesday afternoon, there is a stormy risk on the Atlantic facade. This unstable time, generating showers, could enter the lands of Gers and perhaps to Tarn-et-Garonne, but in intensity that will have nothing to do with what happened on Sunday,” said a forecaster of Météo France Bordeaux.
On the garden side, if you had planned to install your tomato plants, it is better to wait a few days.
