The violent storms accompanied by hailstones and heavy rain which hit Ile-de-France on Wednesday evening subsided during the night, we learned from Météo-France, which lifted the orange alert. storms” and “rain-flood” in all the departments concerned.
“The storms have evacuated in the Channel, towards England. Some rains, now lighter, still remain a little in the departments bordering the Channel, but no longer justifying orange vigilance,” indicated the meteorological agency in its last published bulletin Thursday at 3:18 a.m.
Calvados nevertheless remains on orange “flood” alert due to significant rises in water expected in the Touques basin.
According to the Flightradar website, around ten planes which were due to land at Roissy airport were diverted. Flights to Orly were also redirected to other airports.
The Eurocontrol organization’s dashboard indicated that the two Paris airports were closed to arrivals at 10:52 p.m. Images of flooding in terminal 2 of Roissy airport are also circulating on X.
It fell locally “between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. the equivalent of two weeks of rain in the month of May to the north and east of Paris”, according to the Météo Chaîne.
The rains will continue until the second part of the night, also affecting eastern Normandy.
published on May 2 at 3:52 a.m., AFP
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