Île-de-France is placed on orange rain-flood alert this Wednesday, October 9. In Paris, metro stations were flooded and a National Assembly building even took on water. Elsewhere in the region, rivers have overflowed, notably in Seine-et-Marne, placed on red flood alert.
It rained relentlessly all day on Wednesday, October 9. Placed on orange rain-flood alert, Île-de-France saw the passage of depression Kirk this Wednesday, which caused record rainfall.
In Paris, total rain had already reached 65 mm in the evening, indicates meteorologist Guillaume Séchet. This makes this Wednesday the rainiest day in the capital since 1920, indicates meteorologist Guillaume Woznica.
“Apart from the summer period (and therefore thunderstorms), this is only the second time that such an accumulation of rain has been reached in one day since the start of weather records in 1872,” he adds.
Flooded metro stations
Several Parisian streets saw the water level rise, and metro stations even found themselves with their feet in the water, such as at Saint-Lazare station, as a BFMTV.com journalist was able to observe on site.
In the 6th arrondissement, the Odéon metro station was also flooded, even though the rain is expected to last until midnight.
Institutional buildings even had to face flooding caused by the intense rains. A building of the National Assembly had to be evacuated after taking on water, indicates Jérôme Buisson, deputy for Ain, on social networks.
For its part, the Changer Paris group points to infiltrations within City Hall, seizing the opportunity to launch a small attack on the municipality whose policy is “failing”, according to the group.
Rivers are overflowing
The capital is not the only one to face intense bad weather. Seine-et-Marne has been placed on red flood alert regarding Grand-Morin. The river and its tributaries overflow, particularly at Jouarre, in the north of the department.
In Crecy-la-Chapelle, the land is “waterlogged”, so much so that the authorities have observed a “saturation of the soil”, indicates the mayor, Christine Autenzio, on BFM Paris Île-de-France.
Flooding was also observed in Yvelines. In Rambouillet, the equivalent of a month of rain has fallen just since this Wednesday morning, indicates Guillaume Séchet.
More widely in Yvelines, the equivalent of 15 days of rain fell in one day this Wednesday, indicates the prefecture. Up to 40mm more rain was also expected in the evening.
Météo-France maintains orange rain-flood vigilance on Île-de-France until the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
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