Météo France placed 18 departments on orange alert this Friday, for rain-floods and high water. The Cévennes episode caused significant damage this Thursday, particularly in central-eastern France. In Paris, a falling tree left one dead and two injured.
Météo France has placed 18 departments on orange rain-flood and flood alert this Friday. For the risk of rain-flooding, the departments are: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne, Ariège, Gers, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne , the Lot, and the Dordogne.
These departments are also on orange alert for floods and are added to these: Landes, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, and the Loire.
The red flood alert was lifted on Friday morning in the last four departments concerned (Rhône, Loire, Haute-Loire and Lozère). “The Cévennes episode is over. A few showers are still possible, but not comparable to the rainy episode of the last two days,” specifies the organization in its latest bulletin.
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