Heavy rain linked to the ex-cyclone, now storm, Kirk arrived from the west of France during the night. They spread this Wednesday across the Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire, Poitou, the Center then Ile-de-France and as far as Champagne-Ardennes, Aisne and Lorraine.
Are placed on orange rain-flood vigilance: 24 departments from Vendée to the Ardennes via the Loire Valley and the Paris region.
Are placed on orange flood vigilance (from the Seille and Saône upstream): Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Vosges.
Are on orange alert for violent winds: the Loire, the Rhône, the Ain, the Saône-et-Loire, the Jura, the Doubs, the Haute-Saône, the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Hautes-Pyrénées.
The front arrives at the end of the day from the South-West to the North-East
Continuous and sustained rains will affect the regions extending from Vendée and Pays de Loire to the Paris region, the south of Picardy and Champagne-Ardennes. The accumulations over the whole day will be very high, they could reach 50 to 70 mm in the Paris basin and Champagne-Ardennes and 60 to 80 mm, or even locally 90 mm heading towards the Pays de Loire and Vendée. These are quantities that usually fall within a month. This precipitation will occur in a context of already very wet soils and could therefore cause flooding. In the Pays de Loire, the duration and intensity of precipitation could lead to a reassessment of the level of vigilance, warns Météo-France
Due to a landslide in the Loire, trains between Saint-Etienne and Lyon are not running. In Haute-Saône, on orange alert already on Tuesday, more than 80 municipalities are affected by flooding.
While waiting for the passage of the front which arrives at the end of the day, lighter and intermittent rains are circulating from the South-West to the North-East and over the southern Alps.
Strong winds
At the same time, a moderate southerly wind accompanies this disturbed weather, particularly between the Atlantic arc and Lorraine via the Rhône valley. It will strengthen quickly and blow very strongly over the west of the Pyrenees today, gusts could reach 120 to 150 km/h on the summits and 100 to 110 km/h in the valleys and foothills (Béarn in particular). With the passage of depression Kirk, the wind will shift suddenly to the west at the end of the day with still gusts of around 80 to 100 km/h.
During the afternoon and evening, from Dauphiné to Lyonnais to the Loire and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, we expect gusts from south to southwest of 90 to 110 km/h, occurring in regions weakened by heavy rain yesterday Tuesday.
The coastal departments of Manche are spared the heaviest rain but a few showers are circulating under mixed skies. Over the Mediterranean regions, the sky is covered with a veil at times thick and sometimes doubled by maritime inlets which spread around the relief of Paca in the afternoon with precipitation which increases over the hours particularly in the Maritime Alps.
Temperatures from 10 to 25°C
Minimum temperatures range from 10 to 14 degrees generally from East to West, up to 16 on the shores of the Mediterranean and in Aquitaine, locally 17 or 18 in the Basque Country and Corsica. The maximums vary between 16 and 20 degrees from Brittany and Pays de la Loire to Alsace, between 20 and 24 further south with peaks at 25 or 26 degrees in southern Aquitaine and Corsica.
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