The IRM issued a yellow rain alert this Tuesday for the provinces of Liège, Namur and Luxembourg, in effect until 8:00 p.m. Continuous rains are expected in these areas. The wind is also blowing quite strongly. Be careful on the roads.
Leaves, water and wind. Nothing more is needed to turn our roads into ice rinks. The mixture may have struck you as you went out this Tuesday morning. This gloomy weather is also a little dangerous. The Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM) has issued a yellow rain alert from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the provinces of Liège, Namur and Luxembourg.
This morning, further continuous rains will resume across the country. They will be followed by showers during the afternoon. It is in the southern provinces of the Sambre-et-Meuse furrow that the precipitation will be the most abundant with accumulations regularly reaching 20 to 30 mm in 24 hours. In the province of Luxembourg and in the Liège Ardennes, these accumulations will even reach 30 to 40 mm (more locally 50 mm).
Gusts up to 70 km/h
This evening, the rain will gradually be replaced by a little snow on the Ardennes heights. The wind will be moderate to fairly strong from the southwest and will shift to the west during the day, becoming more moderate. Gusts will still reach 60 to 70 km/h, especially in the morning.
The number 1722 dedicated to non-urgent firefighter interventions was activated on Monday due to a risk of storm or flooding. Moreover, there were numerous interventions early this Tuesday morning. In the Hainaut-Centre emergency zone, there were around fifteen interventions between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., mainly for branches and trees that fell on the road. But all the fire trucks returned to the station. No major incident to report.
In the province of Luxembourg, emergency services were also mobilized with around twenty trees falling on the roads. In Walloon Brabant, around ten teams were mobilized on the ground. There too, everything is back to normal.
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