The “rain-flood” vigilance was returned to yellow in the Alpes-Maritimes, Météo-France has just placed the department in orange again.
From 6 p.m. this Wednesday evening until 3 a.m. Thursday, significant amounts of rain are expected in the 06.
“Ahead of ex-Hurricane Kirk, the flow from southwest to south strengthens at the end of Wednesday afternoon and until next night over the Mediterranean Sea, bringing to the Alps -Maritimes in particular humid air and temporarily sustained orographic rains”, explain the meteorologists.
35 departments are therefore now placed on orange vigilance, while Seine-et-Marne has been placed on red vigilance for possible flooding.
Storm Kirk continues the very wet trend of the year over most of mainland France.
At the end of the rainiest month of September in 25 years, the average annual precipitation totals have already been exceeded almost everywhere in the country, in Nice, Saint-Nazaire, Strasbourg and even Le Mans and Paris.
Globally, September was marked by “extreme precipitation”exacerbated by the abnormally hot temperatures on the planet for more than a year, a consequence of climate change caused by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the European Copernicus Observatory.
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