heavy rains forecast in certain areas of the Pyrénées-Orientales

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Rain, again and again in the Pyrenees-Orientales. The driest department in France, for two years, is experiencing a particularly wet autumn of 2024. As News Perpignan announced to you, new stormy showers were expected this week. They should be even larger than expected, according to the latest forecasts.

Yellow warning for thunderstorms next night

Weather France confirms the risk of rain for the next few hours in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The department was classified into yellow alert for thunderstormsbetween this Thursday, November 7, 6 p.m. and this Friday, November 8, 4 a.m. Next night promises to be eventful in the Catalan country. Aude and Hérault are also affected.

Always under the influence of depression coming from Spain, and as a result of the famous south-easterly flow, only part of the Pyrénées-Orientales should be in the crosshairs of this next episode.

The heavy rains would mainly affect the east of the department, namely the agglomeration of Perpignan and especially the coastline in its entirety, from the Côte Vermille to Salanqueas confirmed by this site map Weather skytaking into account the forecasts of the AROME model:

More than 100mm of rain in places

“Precipitation and storminess continue to increase between this evening and Saturday between Roussillon and Biterrois,” Météo Languedoc Roussillon announces. “ The 100 to 120 millimeter mark has already been mentioned on the modeling, always locally and 20 to 50 millimeters over large areas,” specifies the specialized page, which extends the phenomenon until the start of the weekend.

Certain sectors could indeed benefit from significant accumulations of rain, more than 100mm of precipitation is mentioned at the foot of the Albères, in the area of ​​Argelès-sur-Mer and Collioure. Just like in the north of the Pyrénées-Orientales, between Le Barcarès and Tautavel.

The interior should remain on the fringes of this episode described as Mediterranean. It will hardly rain from Millas up to the mountains.

A very rainy autumn 2024

Affected by an unprecedented drought for three years, the Pyrénées-Orientales department finally has the right to saving rains this fall. About ten days ago, Perpignan and its surroundings recorded 150mm of precipitation in places. A quantity of water in one day that the city had not seen for 13 years.

Since the beginning of September, we have already noted more than 210mm of precipitation on the Roussillon plain. A figure which should be revised upwards in the coming hours. Despite a rainy season, groundwater levels remain very low in the department.

And the prefect of the P.-O., Thierry Bonnier, has already extended the restrictions on water use and the crisis situation until January 2025.

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