The departments of Lozère, Ardèche and Gard will enter orange rain-flood vigilance Monday evening, Météo-France announced (AFP / GUILLAUME SOUVANT)
The departments of Lozère, Ardèche and Gard will enter orange rain-flood vigilance from 10 p.m. Monday, Météo-France announced in its 6 a.m. bulletin.
“During the night from Monday to Tuesday, an active rainstorm episode will affect the Cévennes regions. The precipitation will be intense and could lead to accumulations of around a hundred millimeters in three to six hours. the episode (around twelve hours), 150 to occasionally 200 millimeters of rain are forecast, details the meteorological agency.
The end of the alert in these three southern departments is scheduled for Tuesday around 10:00 a.m., according to the public establishment.
Météo-France mentions a deterioration “of a fairly large scale and unusual for a month of October” in the country, from New Aquitaine to Centre-Val de Loire to the north-eastern quarter.
This type of episode, however, is not unusual in the Cévennes regions, underlines the forecaster.
