Gard and Var on orange rain-flood alert

Friday October 25, Gard and Var will be on orange rain-flood alertaccording to Météo-France, which predicts “a sometimes strong rainy-stormy episode, which will appear intermittently until Sunday”.

The meteorological agency specifies that “a fairly sustained line of rain has set up over part of the Cévennes and the Piedmont, mainly on the Gard side”. She also announces that she has already “locally noted up to 50 to 80 mm of rain in a few hours in the west and north of the department“.

After a lull on Friday morning, the Gard, also placed on yellow storm and flood alert, will experience in the afternoon “ufurther worsening with stormy rains affecting the interior of the department and the reliefs“Newly significant accumulations are to be feared with 70 to 100 mm during the day in the interior of the department, locally a little more in the Cévennes”, warns Météo-France which reminds that “'they fall on weakened areas by previous rainy episodes.

In a press release, the Gard prefecture called Thursday evening the population to “extreme vigilance”recalling that “watercourses can react very quickly in connection with soils that are sometimes already saturated”.

In the Var, also yellow for thunderstorms, stormy rains will occur in the second part of the night from Thursday to Friday on the Var coast and interior and will strengthen until Friday morning. Throughout the day on Friday, accumulations could reach “50 to 80 mm, locally 120 to 150 mm in the interior”, writes Météo France.

Last week, Gard and Var were already affected by heavy rains, which caused exceptional flooding in the center-east of the country.

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