Corsica placed on orange rain-flood alert Saturday evening | weather | Corsica

Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud will be placed on orange rain-flood alert on Saturday evening, Météo-France announced in the morning, due to the Gabri depression which will fall on the southern and eastern facades of the Island of Beauty.

“The rain-storm degradation will affect the south of the island late Saturday afternoon before extending to a large eastern half of the island during the night from Saturday to Sunday and Sunday,” said the meteorological organization in its bulletin published at 6:00 a.m.

South Corsica will be placed under orange rain-flood alert on Saturday at 8:00 p.m., and Haute-Corse at 10:00 p.m.

Météo-France indicates that the precipitation will begin “to increase” and will be “sometimes stormy on the coast” of Southern Corsica at the end of the afternoon. These rains will spread “during the night from Saturday to Sunday” in Haute-Corse then will strengthen “continuously quite strongly over the east of the entire island during the day on Sunday”, continues the forecaster. .

On the eastern slopes and the summits of the central relief, the expected cumulative rainfall should reach between 150 and 220 mm by Sunday evening, in the form of snow above 1,500 meters above sea level, according to Météo-France.

The expected accumulations on the coast would rather be 40 to 60 mm, locally 80 mm, adds the institute. The rains should move away at the end of the day on Sunday, he concludes.