Five departments still on orange rain-flood alert, new alert for Wednesday

Five departments are still placed on orange rain-flood alert on Tuesday October 8, Météo-France announced in its 10 a.m. bulletin. These are the Alpes-Maritimes, Hautes-Alpes, Isère, Ain and Jura. Previously, Saône-et-Loire, Loire, Rhône, Ardèche, Lozère and Gard had been placed on orange vigilance. Monday evening, eleven departments were affected.

La perturbation “shifts slowly towards the east”specifies the public establishment, which explains that “in the departments west of the Rhône-Saône axis, precipitation is gradually weakening and no longer warrants orange level vigilance”. “Further east, heavy, sometimes stormy precipitation is in progress for a few more hours, requiring it to remain in rain-flood orange until 2 p.m.”underlines Météo-France.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the cumulative precipitation since Monday evening was “around 50 to 80 mm, or occasionally 80 to 100 mm on the Rhône-Saône axis”and he reached “from 100 to 200 mm in the Cévennes, or occasionally from 200 to 250 mm”.

Fourteen departments affected Wednesday

But this heavy rainfall has, for the moment, had little impact on residents: in Bouches-du-Rhône, despite impressive rain early in the morning, firefighters reported that despite “some flooded cellars”there were no significant interventions. In the Alpes-Maritimes, heavily affected by flooding, particularly in Cannes, at the end of September, “no intervention related to bad weather” was not reported by the firefighters.

The prefect had ordered the preventive closure of nurseries, schools, middle schools and high schools in the department for the entire day of Tuesday. It was the first time that it had taken this measure since the passage of depression Aline on October 20, 2023, for which the department had been placed on red alert.

Furthermore, for the day of Wednesday, Météo-France has placed fourteen departments on orange rain-flood vigilance: Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Deux-Sèvres, Indre-et-Loire , Sarthe, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Yvelines, Val-d’Oise and Ile-de-France .