The Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Dordogne, Creuse, Corrèze and Haute-Vienne were placed on orange alert for rain and flooding on Friday from 7 p.m., Météo-France indicated in its latest bulletin, due to particularly rainy storms in the department.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes have also been placed on orange flood alert.
The forecaster predicts an end to the episode during the night from Saturday to Sunday, he specifies in his latest update at 4:00 p.m.
“At the end of the afternoon, the precipitations resumed a stormy character and intensified significantly in the east of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Dordogne and in the Limousin. These stormy rains continued until the end of the night from Friday to Saturday in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and until the middle of the afternoon on Saturday in the Dordogne and in the Limousin,” explains the public establishment.
“These sometimes intense rains (20 to 30 mm/h) cause significant accumulations over time”, warns Météo-France, which predicts precipitation of the order of “50 to 80 mm, which could even reach or locally exceed 100 to 120 mm” and “150 to 200 mm on the Spanish border part” of the Hautes-Pyrénées in most of the Dordogne and Limousin departments and in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
In the rest of France, an active storm line will cross eastern Occitanie in the afternoon, towards Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hauts-de-France. It will give fairly brief but intense rains, sometimes accompanied by hail and gusts of wind.
tmt-walk/bow
