Brittany will escape the storm this week! Well, in part… The remains of Hurricane Kirk, which will lose intensity to become a depression-type phenomenon, should not bring significant gusts of wind. “As it is to the south of the depression that the winds are the most violent, Brittany will escape the storm which will rage on an axis going from the Center-West to the Center region and the Grand-East of France”, summarizes Sébastien Decaux, forecaster at Météo Bretagne, in his Monday bulletin.
Very heavy rains in south-east Brittany
Although the winds are expected to be less powerful than expected, precipitation is expected. And, according to Météo Bretagne, the accumulations could be “considerable” between Wednesday and Thursday morning: between 80 and 100 mm of rain are feared in the south of Loire-Atlantique (the equivalent of a month of rain in 24 hours) , between 60 and 80 mm in the north of this department and certain southern sectors of Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine; and finally between 40 and 60 mm in a diagonal going from the Lorient region to Vitré (35).
Estimates still to be refined, at a time when even the Météo France institute affirms that there are “persistent uncertainties” as to the “kinetics of progression of the depression” and its “deepening intensity”. However, it cannot be ruled out that the quantities of rainwater received this week in already loaded soils could lead to flooding in Loire-Atlantique, in the south and east of Brittany. Rains having started, recalls Stéven Tual of the media Temps Breton, this Monday, and left to continue intensely during the day of Tuesday in these sectors…
