Cévennes episode: Lozère on orange alert, water is already rising in Langogne

The department is classified under orange vigilance this Wednesday, October 16, 2024. This orange vigilance is established for rain/flood and thunderstorms. Warning is yellow for floods.

Météo France evokes “in the Cévennes, continuous rains of significant intensity [qui] have been occurring for several hours continuously. Over the last three hours, we added generally between 30 and 70 mm on the relief, and up to 100-120 mm in the Lozère part, the strongest accumulations having taken place along a strip stretching from Saint-Jean-du-Gard to Langogne. Since the start of the episode, accumulations in the Cévennes sector have often reached 100 to 150 mm, and nearly 200 mm have been recorded south of Mont Lozère..”

Trains at a standstill

The Langonese municipality also had to evacuate the new parking lot in the Gargantua area this Wednesday morning, October 16, because of the level of Langouyrou. The Calquières spinning mill also has water on the edge of its ground floor. Train traffic was interrupted between Alès and Langogne as a safety measure.

The upper Allier and the upper Tarn are more particularly monitored, as specified by the Lozère prefecture, which invites people to limit travel and reminds them that they should not take a path invaded by water.

In Lozère, the episode is scheduled until the end of Thursday. Over the entire episode, Météo France envisages accumulations of 180 to 250 mm on the Cévennes axis, occasionally up to 300 to 400 mm.