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Residents walk through the flooded center of Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières, in central France, on October 11, 2024.
WEATHER – The hurricane season in the Atlantic definitely affects France a lot. After the damage caused by Storm Kirk, another ex-hurricane, Leslie, will cause very heavy rain in France, particularly in the South-East, from this Tuesday, October 15 in the evening.
Hurricane Leslie, which formed in early October to the west of the Cape Verde Islands, is no longer even a storm, emphasizes Futura. These are his “residue” mixed with another depression which will cause a flood in our regions.
Leslie, Milton et Berenice
“The significant injection of atmospheric moisture brought by former hurricanes Milton and Leslie”reinforced by the remains of storm Berenice in Portugal, raises fears “torrential rains”, describes the Weather expert Guillaume Jauseau, on his account X. The same analysis is made by the forecasting engineer at Météo France, Gaétan Heymes.
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Leslie « should arrive from the west of Portugal on Tuesday and generate a fairly sustained south-southwest flow over the south of Spain. explains Yann Amice, meteorologist for Weather’n’Co, to West France. Consequence: coming up from our Portuguese neighbors, Leslie will hit the South of France, with risks of flooding.
A very strong Cevennes episode
Météo France predicts that the “rainstorm degradation” present in Spain will win on Tuesday “ the Pyrenees at the end of the day ». Then, the “Rains will reach Languedoc-Roussillon in the evening, with the start of a lasting Cévennes episode”, indicates the forecaster in his bulletin this Monday.
In the Cévennes on Wednesday, monstrous rainfall accumulations of around 100 to 150 mm are expected, the equivalent of more than a month of precipitation in one day. The meteorologist Guillaume Séchet even writes on “some models envisage up to 300 mm in 48 hours on the relief”.
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“The rains will affect to a lesser extent the plains of Languedoc, locally we expect around 50 mm, and also the PACA region and eastern Corsica”continues Météo France.
In parallel with this Cévennes episode, a “ front froid » will reach Brittany on Wednesday and will settle in the center of the country on Thursday. Meteorologist Yann Amice, however, announces good news: “Leslie’s remains should be evacuated during the day on Friday”which gives hope for a lull this weekend.
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