Météo-France forecasters have placed Lozère and Gard on orange alert for the risk of rain-flooding for the day of Wednesday, October 16. Ten other communities are in yellow.
A new depression threatens France. Météo-France forecasters have placed Lozère and Gard on orange alert for the risk of rain-flooding for the day of Wednesday, October 16.
Ten other departments have been placed on yellow alert for the same reason: Hautes-Pyrénées, Aveyron, Hérault, Ardèche, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Alpes- de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-Maritimes.
Lozère and Gard will also be affected by an orange alert for the risk of thunderstorms and a yellow alert for floods. Other localities will also be in yellow for the same reason, such as Aisne, Ardèche, Ardennes, Aveyron, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Finistère, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Marne, Oise, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Rhône and Sarthe.
Between 100 to 150 mm of accumulations
Thus, Météo-France announces “cumulations of around 100 to 150 mm (loc >200 mm) are expected on the relief of the Cévennes” for Wednesday. “The rains will affect to a lesser extent the plains of Languedoc, eastern Corsica, and also the PACA region, an area where we could exceed 50mm,” added the company.
“On the border part of the Pyrenees with Spain, the rains will also be heavy, sometimes in excess of 80 mm, while the wind will blow strongly on the ridges, up to 100 km/h at peak,” they said. authorities said.
