two departments of Lorraine go into orange vigilance, here’s why

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Depression Kirk is not over yet Lorraine ! In his last point published this Wednesday October 9, 2024 at 4 p.m., Météo France has just placed the Meurthe-et-Mosellein raw orange vigilance . The department is also in yellow vigilance rain-flood and wind.

The Meuse is for its part placed in orange rain-flood alert and yellow for wind and floods. As for the departments of Vosgesand the Mosellethe first is on yellow flood and wind alert and the second is on yellow flood, wind, rain-flood alert.

Here are the forecast.

Heavy rain, floods and risk of flooding

As Florian Pasiecznik, founder of Météo Lor’, indicated on Tuesday Lorraine Newsthe whole region will be heavily affected during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, by the Kirk depression. “It is expected between 30 and 60 mm of rain. Between Monday and Thursday morning, it should fall between one month and six weeks of rain ».

A quantity that could cause flooding and raw locally. Via a press release, the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle announces precisely that the Chiers upstream section went into orange alert. “Significant rainfall is forecast for the Chiers watershed, with uncertainties over the location of the heaviest rain. Reactions are expected on the section at the end of the day.”

It is also specified that a “ significant floodis possible, comparable to that of January 2, 2024 in Longwy.”

Strong gusts expected tonight in Lorraine

These precipitations will be accompanied by strong gusts. As Météo Lor’ explains on its website, it is during the night from Wednesday to Thursday that “the gusts will appear the strongest», from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.

On the plain, the wind will blow up to 70-80 km/h even up to 90-95 km/h . It is also indicated that “gusts of the order of 110-130 km/hcannot be excluded in the Vosges Massif.

On social networks, the SNCF announced that Kirk’s depression coulddisrupt train and bus trafficin the region, between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.

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