Aveyron comes out of orange rain-flood and flood alert this Friday, October 18 in the latest Météo France bulletin. Feared, the rainy episode was notable in the former Midi-Pyrénées, particularly in Tarn, Quercy, Rouergue and in the Pyrenean foothills. But for now, no flooding is expected and firefighters have not noted any significant interventions.
Still be vigilant, however, Sustained rain is still expected this Friday, particularly in Tarn and Ariège.
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Flooded premises, leaking roofs in Sud-Tarn
Haute-Garonne, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot, Gers and Hautes-Pyrénées remain on orange rain-flood alert until midday.
Since Thursday morning, Météo France has recorded 20 to 40 mm across the area, rather 40 to 60 mm from the Hautes-Pyrénées to Luchonnais and in the Castres region and 60 to 80 mm from the south of the Lot to the northeast of Aveyron.
On France Bleu Occitanie this Friday morning, Colonel Eric Vincent from Sdis du Tarn confirms that the activity was “sustained but not exceptional”with in all around forty interventions mainly in the south of the department, Castres, Mazamet, Labruguière, for flooded premises or roofs that were leaking water, particularly in a retirement home and a shopping center.
A listener from Labruguière (Tarn) near Castres also informs France Bleu Occitanie this Friday of power outages in the sector.
The water level is also not worrying at this stage. In Albi (Tarn), the Tarn rose to 1.65 m at 5 a.m., far from the three meters reached in June 2020. The same in Saint-Sulpice, where the river rose last night to 3.25 m (compared to 5, 4m in March 2022, the last flood). In Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), the Tarn is measured at 2.12m at dawn, again very far from the most recent floods.
Suspension of trains in the north of the region until Friday noon
Already since Thursday morning, the SNCF connections between Toulouse and Tarn, Aveyron and Lot have been closed in advance. There is no substitute bus. The total interruption of traffic on the Toulouse-Rodez, Toulouse-Mazamet, Rodez-Brive, Montauban-Cahors-Brive, Toulouse-Figeac-Aurillac axes is extended until late Friday morning.
No more departments are on red alert this Friday. The bad weather especially hit, to a completely different extent, the departments of Ardècheespecially the town of Annonay, the Loire and the Rhône.
