Storm Kirk began to approach the department from the west on Wednesday morning, October 9, around 6 a.m. The Loiret enters orange rain/flood alert from 10 a.m.
If you take a look out the window, you can see it, with its already relatively intense rains, in the Orléanais region in particular, since the night
from Tuesday to Wednesday. No wind yet, northwest of the Loiret, at the start
morning: Storm Kirk (originally a hurricane, formed off the coast of Senegal), arriving from the west, really began to approach the Loiret, Wednesday morning, October 9, at around 6 a.m.
The main thing.
– At 10 a.m., Loiret switched to orange rain/flood vigilance, like twenty-nine other departments.
– At 8 a.m., the Bricy weather station (for Orléanais) already showed 5 to 6 mm of precipitation since midnight. And it’s only just beginning… Let’s remember that in the space of 24 hours, according to forecasts, “between 30 and 50 mm of water should fall on the Gien and Montargis sectors”. The north of the department should be the most affected, according to Aurélien Charron, of the Météo Centre-Val de Loire association. Where we expect “between 50 and 80 mm, particularly in the regions of Pithiviers and Malesherbois”. And more widely in Beauce…
– The wind will also blow: “It should really pick up at the end of the day, but more in the south of the region. With average winds in Gien and Montargis… between 40 and 50 km/hour, and possible gusts between 60 and 80 km/hour.”
– To summarize: precipitation should be uninterrupted in the Loiret on Wednesday October 9, “with a big reactivation of the rain, mainly in the north (Orléans, Pithiviers…), around 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. An episode, which according to models, should last until midnight As the soils are already saturated by the precipitation of the last thirty days, localized flooding is possible.
Closed parks in the Loiret
– The City of Orléans closes all its parks, gardens and cemeteries for the day
from October 9.
– Due to the orange level “Rain-Flood” alert, the Parc floral de La Source, in Orléans, will remain closed all day on Wednesday October 9.
– In Montargis, all city parks are also closed. The town hall specifies that “the drains have been cleaned in order to let the water flow as best as possible towards rivers”. For watercourses in the Montargois sector, green alert only, so, a priori, no risk of overflowing.
– In Briare, access to all parks and gardens in the eastern city is prohibited until Thursday, October 10. Are concerned: the squares Frédéric, de la Mairie, du Baraban, du Pont-des-Vignes, the Prés-Gris water guard and the Parc des Roches.
– In Chécy, the 2,024 meter “sport health” walk, scheduled for Wednesday October 9, is canceled.
– In Olivet, the Donjon, Yvremont and Couasnon football fields, as well as the Yvremont track, are impassable this Wednesday, October 9.
– The Department of Loiret is closing the parks and sensitive natural areas belonging to it for these two days (October 9 and 10), for the safety of users. The parks concerned are as follows: Puiseaux and Vernisson park in Villemandeur, Trousse-Bois park in Briare, Sully-sur-Loire castle park, Limère park in Ardon, Gué-des pond -Cens
in Vieilles-Maisons-sur-Joudry, the Noue-Mazone pond in Coudroy and Châtenoy and the Châteauneuf-sur-Loire park.
More information to come during the day…
David Creff
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