Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10, Corsica is placed on yellow “thunderstorm” alert by Météo-France services. Haute-Corse is also on “rain-flood” alert. Authorities are calling for caution.
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Corsica is placed on yellow “thunderstorm” alert by Météo-France services, this Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November.
In Corsica-du-Sud, the alert takes effect this Saturday noon and will be active until this Sunday, 1 p.m.
Corsica is on yellow thunderstorm alert.
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© Météo-France
In Haute-Corse, vigilance starts at 6 a.m. and ends the next day at 1 p.m. The department is also on yellow “rain-flood” alert, from 6 a.m. this Saturday until 11 a.m. the next day.
“The weather is mostly cloudy all dayindicates the Météo-France bulletin for Saturday. However, we can fear showers, in the Sartenais, on the relief, on the Alta Rocca as well as in the Porto-Vecchio region, or even a thunderstorm at the beginning of the afternoon. It's snow that falls above 2450 meters.”
The highest rainfall totals expected are 10 millimeters on the terrain.
For the night from Saturday to Sunday: “Under a cloudy sky, the weather is often dry. However, temporary stormy showers occur except in the southwest of the department and the extreme south. It snows from 2350 meters. A maximum of up to 5 is expected. millimeters of rain on the relief.”
“All day there is a risk of showers, often not very markedannounces the bulletin. It is on the eastern coast and Castagniccia that the showers are most numerous, and they can even take on a stormy character during the morning. The rain-snow limit drops from 2600 meters to 2400 meters at midday, before gradually rising again.”
A maximum of up to 50 millimeters of rain is expected on Castagniccia.
For the night from Saturday to Sunday: “The weather is humid, very cloudy, with scattered rain. Precipitation is more sustained, thunderstorms are possible in the east of the department. Snow falls above 2,300 meters. The heaviest cumulative rainfall can be around 40 millimeters on the eastern plain.”
Météo-France calls for compliance with safety instructions:
- Be careful if you practice activities sensitive to weather risks or near a shore or a watercourse. Usual phenomena in the region but occasionally and locally dangerous (example: mistral, summer storm, rising water levels, strong waves submerging the coastline) are in fact expected.
- Stay informed of developments.
