the lull continues, more than the Loir-et-Cher on orange alert for floods

Four days after the passage of the Kirk depression over France, the situation had become “relatively calm”, Sunday October 13 in the morning, concerning rivers in flood in the wake of the storm. Only the Loir-et-Cher department is kept on orange alert, Météo-France announced in its latest bulletin. The flood alert in Eure-et-Loir has returned to yellow, with the reduction of vigilance concerning the upstream Eure section, according to the forecaster and the government organization Vigicrues.

“The weather situation is relatively calm in flooded watersheds. The rains forecast for this Sunday and tomorrow, Monday, are light in the north of the country and should not counteract the tendency for rivers to recede. In these conditions, the current floods continue their slow propagation downstream”details Vigicrues in an update published Sunday morning.

However, a significant flood is still spreading across the Loir Vendômois, in Loir-et-Cher, according to Vigicrues. “In the Vendôme sector, the level reached its maximum on Saturday evening and the decline has begun. Levels remain high. Further downstream, at Villavard, the peak of the flood is expected on Sunday afternoon, at damaging overflow levels.completes the monitoring service.

At the end of the wettest month of September in twenty-five years, the average annual precipitation totals have already been exceeded almost everywhere in mainland France.