The Eure-et-Loir prefecture is putting in place an orange alert for thunderstorms and rain-flooding from 8 p.m. this Thursday, June 20, 2024. An alert which should remain in effect until the next morning.
Eure-et-Loir is placed on orange rain-flood and thunderstorm alert from 8 p.m., this Thursday, June 20, with an “end of the phenomenon”, expected at 10 a.m. Friday, June 21, specifies the prefecture.
An “active rain-storm episode” is crossing the department and a “stormy deterioration” is expected this night, a deterioration “which began in the departments placed on orange vigilance for a risk of thunderstorms and rain-flooding with cumulative precipitation which can be locally very marked”, continues the prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, in its press release.
Loiret, Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe are also placed on orange vigilance.
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“Potentially peaks approaching 100 mm”
Rainfall of “between 30 and 50 mm with locally 80 mm and potentially peaks approaching 100 mm” should affect our department, “even hail” add the state services in their press release.
The Yvelines department is, for its part, placed on yellow alert for storms. The prefecture indicates that “bordering departments” to those placed on orange alert could also be affected, “but this is rarer”.
Milan Tinnirello
