Four departments of Brittany and the South-West placed on orange alert due to violent winds from Sunday

Météo-France expects gusts ranging from 100 to 150 km/h in Finistère, Côtes-d’Armor, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées.

The storm Herminia approaches France. In a bulletin published at 4 p.m. Saturday January 25, Météo-France announces that Finistère, Côtes-d’Armor, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées are placed on orange vigilance from Sunday at 9 a.m. due to strong winds expected. Seine-Maritime and Oise also join Ille-et-Vilaine, Mayenne and Calvados, already on alert for the risk of flooding.

Météo-France expects gusts of around “130 km/h on the coasts” and of “100 km/h inland” in Brittany. In the South-West departments, the gusts will increase from “110 to 120 km/h in medium mountains” and will be able to exceed “150 km/h on certain exposed ridges or passes”from midday.

For its part, Vigicrues warns against possible “localized overflows” of Mayenne in the night, “in the Laval and Château-Gontier sectors”due to expected precipitation on Saturday and Sunday. In Calvados, the orange alert concerns the Orne as well as the Dives, specifies the river monitoring body. In Ille-et-Vilaine, the Meu, the Ille and the Illet are the rivers presenting “risk of significant flooding”continues Vigicrues.