And hourly intensities of up to 60 mm/h.
Restless night on the Pyrenees-Orientales. The department was hit by thunderstorms marked by strong electrical activity, the coastline was particularly affected. A stormy situation which is not over, quite the contrary. For their part, the P.-O. and Gard are still placed on yellow alert (Thunderstorms) this Friday by Météo France.
“Heavy rain”
And as expected, Aude et Hérault have switched to orange alert (Rain-Flood, Thunderstorms). An alert that runs from 6 p.m. this Friday.
“This Friday at the end of the day and during the night from Friday to Saturday, thunderstorms, sometimes strong and accompanied by heavy rain, break out in the Gulf of Lion, particularly from the east of Aude to Hérault, on the coast and inside”specifies Météo France in its 10 a.m. bulletin. “These storms last a large part of the night from Friday to Saturday. They are accompanied by heavy rain with hourly intensities reaching 50 to 60 mm/h; the cumulative rainfall for this stormy episode can reach 80 to 120 mm locally 150 /180mm”.
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