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 evacuated into the Channel, towards England. Some rain, now lighter, still remains a little in the departments bordering the Channel, but no longer justifying orange vigilance. said the meteorological agency in its latest bulletin published Thursday at 3:18 a.m. Calvados nevertheless remains on orange “flood” alert due to significant rises in water expected in the Touques basin.
Some planes diverted
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.
Two weeks of rain fell in two hours
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 weather Channel.
The rains will continue until the second part of the night, also affecting eastern Normandy.
This Wednesday evening, five new departments, mainly in Normandy, were placed on orange “rain flood” alert, adding to 14 others placed on “thunderstorm” alert, Météo-France announced Wednesday afternoon. Thus the departments of Calvados, Orne, Eure, Seine-Maritime and Eure-et-Loir were placed on orange alert, due to a “rainstorm-stormy episode not presenting a exceptional but requiring special monitoring due to the expected precipitation accumulations in a context of soils that are already sometimes saturated.” Météo-France had already placed 14 departments on orange “storm” alert: the eight departments of Ile-de-France, Oise, Somme, Aisne, Marne, Aube and Yonne.
“A stormy wave, organized and intense, will sweep the regions from northern Burgundy to Hauts-de-France between the end of the afternoon and the second part of the night from Wednesday to Thursday. In the departments placed on orange alert, storms are expected to be virulent with high intensities of precipitation, hail and squalls. Electrical activity will also be marked,” the meteorological agency indicated in its latest bulletin published at 4:00 p.m.
Article updated on May 2: lifting of the alert
