IN PICTURES. Several districts of Marseille flooded after very heavy rains

A particularly intense storm hit Marseille this Tuesday, October 8 in the morning. Relatively short in terms of duration, the episode was nonetheless notable since it flooded many sectors of the city.

As shown by the X posts of two residents of the city, the Old Port was even overflowing with them.

Many neighborhoods flooded

As shown by these images posted on X by the specialized accounts Météo Express and Disaster News, other districts of the Marseille city also found themselves under water,

Guillaume Séchet, the founder of Météo Villes, notes that these flooded streets caused significant traffic difficulties in several points of the city.

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Bad weather linked to depression Gerda

This episode of rain is linked to the influence of depression Gerda, which projected significant amounts of precipitation over the south of France from Monday evening.

The episode had also legitimized the placement on orange vigilance of several departments of the Alps and the Rhone corridor, while Bouches-du-Rhône was on yellow vigilance.

A link with global warming

Note that rainy episodes such as the one experienced by Marseille this Tuesday are made more intense by global warming, given that, in a hotter climate, the atmosphere can contain more humidity (and therefore more potential rain) and that the water cycle is also accelerated.

Furthermore, when it falls in the city, this rain causes all the more damage as the evacuation networks are not always suitable, while the soils, which are too artificial, cope poorly, if not at all, with this precipitation. .