As a new rainy episode affects the south-east of France, Météo France has placed three departments on orange alert for flooding on Sunday October 27.
Torrential rains have been falling in the south-eastern quarter of France since Friday October 25. As a result, Météo-France has placed three departments on orange alert for floods and rain-floods. These are Var, Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, according to the latest 6 a.m. bulletin. “An episode of heavy, sometimes stormy rain concerns the south-east of the country, more particularly the Gard and the south-east PACA, with an intensification expected on Saturday in the Var and Alpes-Maritimes”indicates the meteorological organization.
“Heavy rain requiring orange vigilance may spread to departments other than Gard and Var by the end of the weekend“, also warns Météo-France. In places, “cumulative amounts of rain of 100 to 150 millimeters are still to fall, adding to the 50 to 80 millimeters that have already fallen“, it is underlined. Especially since these rains “fall on areas weakened by previous rainy episodes“.
In several municipalities in the Var, particularly in the center of the department, heavy downpours generated almost a month's worth of rain in the space of a few hours, Friday October 25. In Luc, 152.5 millimeters of rain fell, or five weeks of precipitation, while the accumulations are just as impressive in Vidauban, where 119 millimeters of rain fell between 5 and 6 a.m. This bad weather has already had repercussions on the Argens river, the level of which rose by six meters between Thursday evening and Friday morning. The Argens (downstream) was placed on orange flood alert according to the 6 a.m. flood alert bulletin, Sunday October 27. Firefighters also evacuated 15 people in Vidauban this Friday, October 25, mid-morning.
published on October 27 at 6:10 a.m., Quentin Marchal, 6Medias
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