The orange rain-flood vigilance triggered Monday evening in 11 departments only concerns five of them, Météo-France announced on Tuesday, which on the other hand warns of an intense rainy episode linked to the Kirk depression on Wednesday, associated with a “very strong gust of wind“.
On Tuesday, the orange rain-flood alert will still concern Ain, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Isère and Jura until 5 p.m., the weather forecasting organization said.
On Wednesday, 17 departments between Vendée and the Paris region were placed on orange alert.rain-floods” and two – Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées – on orange “wind” vigilance.
Tuesday morning, the heavy precipitation moved east: the departments of Saône-et-Loire, Loire, Rhône, Ardèche, Lozère and Gard were therefore downgraded to yellow.
Météo-France specifies in its 10:00 a.m. bulletin that “the accumulations observed are of the order of 50 to 80 mm, or even occasionally 80 to 100 mm on the Rhône-Saône axis mainly, reaching 100 to 200 mm in the Cévennes, or even occasionally 200 to 250 mm” since the beginning of the disturbance Monday evening.
No significant intervention in Bouches-du-Rhône
But this heavy rainfall has so far had little impact on residents: in Bouches-du-Rhône, despite impressive rain early in the morning, firefighters indicated that despite “a few cellars flooded”, there had been no significant interventions.
In the Alpes-Maritimes, heavily affected by flooding, particularly in Cannes at the end of September, “no intervention linked to bad weather” was reported by the firefighters.
A landslide was reported on a road in the Mercantour massif but the watercourses in the department did not overflow, the prefecture indicated at 11:00 a.m. At the end of the morning, “the coastline is almost no longer affected and was less impacted than expected due to less significant storm cells which moved quickly“.
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.
In Ain, firefighters indicated that around thirty interventions were carried out on Tuesday morning for flooding and falling trees on public roads, mainly in Val-de-Saône and the area of Coastal.
Drivers blocked
Two drivers, stranded by the flood, had to be extricated from their vehicle Tuesday morning near Miribel. In Dagneux, a river overflowed on a housing estate and five people, three adults and two children, were evacuated, firefighters detailed.
In the Rhône, there were around twenty emergency interventions linked to bad weather, notably for a flooded premises in Meyzieu, but nothing significant at this stage, according to the prefecture.
In the Loire, where there was up to 100 mm of precipitation in places, firefighters reported only three interventions.
