Gard and Var will be on orange “rain-flood” alert on Friday October 25, Météo-France announced on Thursday evening, which forecasts “a sometimes strong rainy-stormy episode, which will occur intermittently until Sunday”.
“A fairly sustained line of rain has set up over part of the Cévennes and the Piedmont, mainly on the Gard side”specifies in its latest bulletin the meteorological agency which says it has already “locally recorded up to 50 to 80 millimeters of rain in a few hours in the west and north of the department”.
After a lull on Friday morning, the Gard, also placed on yellow alert for “thunderstorms” and “floods”, will experience in the afternoon “a further worsening with stormy rains which affect the interior of the department and the reliefs”. “Again significant accumulations are to be feared with 70 to 100 millimeters during the day in the interior of the department, locally a little more in the Cévennes”warns Météo-France, which reminds that “ they fall on areas weakened by previous rainy episodes”.
In a press release, the Gard prefecture called on the population on Thursday evening to “extreme vigilance”recalling that “watercourses can react very quickly in connection with soils that are sometimes already saturated”. In the Var, also yellow for thunderstorms, stormy rain will occur in the second part of the night from Thursday to Friday on the Var coast and interior and will strengthen until Friday morning.
Over the entire day of Friday, the accumulations could reach “50 to 80 millimeters, locally 120 to 150 millimeters in the interior”writes Météo-France. Last week, Gard and Var were already affected by heavy rains, which caused exceptional flooding in the center-east of the country.
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