The department placed on orange alert for rain and flooding

Weather – Accumulations of up to 150 mm are expected from this Saturday afternoon on the Isle of Beauty

Be careful if you live on the Isle of Beauty. In its latest bulletin, Météo-France placed Haute-Corse on orange alert for rain and flooding. This alert, accompanied by a yellow warning for thunderstorms, will be in effect from 3 p.m. until Sunday morning.

From midday, “temporarily heavy and stormy” rains are expected on the eastern coast of Corsica. According to Météo-France, “the intensities could be around 30 to 50 millimeters per hour in places and the accumulations approach 80 to 120 millimeters in three to six hours”.

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Over the entire episode, the accumulations “risk occasionally reaching 150 millimeters, or even a little more”. The Haute-Corse prefecture specifies that the sectors most impacted by bad weather will be “the coastal areas and the first foothills of the eastern facade between Cap Corse and Solenzara”.

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