Enedis announced that more than 64,000 customers were without electricity at 7:00 p.m., mainly in the South-West.
A risk of “strong to exceptional” flooding on the Grand Morin river, a sub-tributary of the Seine, justified the placement of Seine-et-Marne on red alert, according to Vigicrues.
“Rapid rises and localized overflows could be observed as early as Wednesday evening,” warns the specialized government site.
For Thursday, Seine-et-Marne remains on red alert but Météo France has also placed 25 departments on orange alert, including 15 for “rain-flooding”, five for wind and seven for floods.
At the end of a crisis meeting in Paris, the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher highlighted the mobilization of “all State services” and called “everyone to exercise caution”.
“These episodes will be repeated. We are in a moment where climate change is concretely reflected in our daily lives,” she stressed to journalists.
According to the Minister for Transport François Durovray, the difficulties at the end of the day on Wednesday remained “limited”, including “a few diverted planes”.
On the rail, he mentioned the possibility of “downed trees” or “collapses of embankments” and the arrangements made “so that before the opening of the service” on Thursday, “all checks are made and that obviously the user safety is ensured.
SNCF indicated that several localized traffic interruptions were in progress at 7:00 p.m. in order to guarantee the safety of travelers and staff, particularly in New Aquitaine, Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire and Rhône-Alpes.
In addition to Seine-et-Marne, where school transport will be suspended on Thursday, 29 departments are placed on orange alert on Wednesday, including 20 for “rain-flooding”, eight for “wind” and three for floods (Alpes-Maritimes, Meurthe- et-Moselle, Vendée), some may be for two vigilances, details the Météo-France bulletin published at 10:00 p.m.
A month of rain was expected in one day on an axis going from Vendée to Champagne-Ardenne, to the south of Picardy via the Paris region.
In Noirmoutier-en-l’île in Vendée, the hospital center was affected by a flood, which did not require evacuation at this stage, according to the Vendée prefecture. Many roads have been and sometimes still are flooded in many sectors of the department. Firefighters have carried out 134 interventions since the start of the storm and received more than 536 calls.
In Pays de la Loire, “heavy rains led to flooding on the tracks” between Saint-Nazaire and Le Croisic, Nantes and Pornic as well as between Nantes and Saint-Gilles, interrupting rail traffic in places.
In Loire-Atlantique, 22 roads were totally or partially cut according to the departmental council.
– 211 km/h in the Pyrenees –
As a precaution, the SNCF had scheduled a total interruption of traffic on several routes on Wednesday, notably between Dax (Landes) and Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées), Bayonne and Hendaye (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) or even Saintes and Royan (Charente-Maritime).
In New Aquitaine, a strong gust of wind was felt, particularly on the western summits of the Pyrenees: according to Météo France, gusts of 211 km/h were recorded overnight in the area of the resort. skiing in Iraty (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
“Such gusts in Iraty are not usual,” Christophe Dedieu, president of the Météo Pyrénées association, explains to AFP, who expects “mayhem very locally in very exposed areas” of the Pyrenean foothills. .
Passing first through the Iberian Peninsula, Kirk caused damage in Portugal, notably leaving 300,000 people without power.
Storm Kirk continues the very wet trend of the year over most of mainland France. At the end of the wettest month of September in 25 years, the average annual precipitation totals have already been exceeded almost everywhere in the country.
September was also marked on a global scale by “extreme precipitation”, exacerbated by the abnormally hot temperatures on the planet for more than a year, a consequence of climate change, according to the European Copernicus observatory.
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