Franche-Comté is once again placed on orange storm alert this Saturday, June 29 by Météo France. Heavy rain, hail and strong gusts are expected. Not enough to give the inhabitants of Haute-Saône a break, who have been heavily impacted by the recent storms.
We hope that you have enjoyed the sun, which is (already) giving way to rain again. After the violent storms and torrential rains during the night of June 26 to 27, which hit part of Franche-Comté, the departments of Doubs, Territoire de Belfort, Jura and Haute-Saône are on storm yellow alert. this Friday June 28, before switching to orange alert on Saturday June 29.
Franche-Comté placed on yellow and orange storm alert.
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A “Significant rainy and stormy degradation will affect the majority of the country.“, specifies Météo France. Intense rain, hail and strong gusts are expected: “dStorms are already locally possible in the afternoon, ahead of a generalized stormy deterioration which will spread to the south of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region on Saturday evening”, specifies the weather report.
Forecasts that can be feared by the inhabitants. In Haute-Saône, the rains of the previous days caused significant flooding, transforming the village of Breurey-lès-Faverney into a real torrent. “OI’ve never had that before. The rain fell for half an hour, it was very fast and violentexplains Jean Marchal, mayor of Breurey-lès-Faverney. It was flowing everywhere. We have flooded houses, raised roads, the situation is very serious.”
“There was a very big hailstorm, wind, rain, it fell very hard, it rose up to 1m20 in the houses, but it came down just as quickly”says Nicolas, a resident of the village.
In fact, in two hours, the equivalent of a month’s rain fell. In total, around a hundred houses were damaged in this town of 600 inhabitants.
