Herminia succeeds the Eowyn storm, of exceptional violence across the Channel and especially in Ireland. It has caused rains and gusts on northwestern France, in areas where the floors are already saturated with water.
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Météo-France has placed Orange Vents on the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées and the Rhône until Monday. Finistère and Côtes-d’Armor were demoted to yellow vigilance in the middle of the day.
The Morbihan will go to orange for rain-innon from 6:00 p.m. Sunday. Calvados, Ille-et-Vilaine, Mayenne and Orne will remain in raw orange vigilance until Monday.
The water will continue to climb throughout the region, warned Vigicrues.
“After a slight lull of precipitation, the new rains of this Sunday will generate new reactions on many rivers. On the rivers already in flood, new increases are expected,” said the service of Information on floods in his latest bulletin.
-For Rennes, “it is the equivalent of 15 days of precipitation” which could still fall, said the mayor of the city.
Further south, in Sables d’Olonne, the village of Vendée Globe, installed since the departure of the world tour on November 10, was closed to the public.
According to a source close to the race management, the bad conditions could force the skippers Benjamin Dutreux and Clarisse Crémer, expected on Sunday, to shelter in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) or Lorient (Morbihan) once the line has been over the line From the Vendée city because the entrance to the port could be too dangerous.
Depression Herminia has also resulted in normandy trains, where gusts up to 110 km/h are expected, the SNCF announced.
Snow showers fell into the night in Mayenne, disturbing road traffic.
