Weather alert: Hurricane Kirk arrives in France, 25 departments on orange alert Wednesday for wind, rain, flooding and high water

After his stay in the United States, the Kirk Depression arrived in France. Thus Météo France announces in its 4 p.m. bulletin that more than 20 departments will be on orange alert for rain-flooding, floods, and wind from tomorrow morning.

Category 4

If for the end of Tuesday, only Saône-et-Loire, Vosges and Haute-Saône are on orange alert for floods. But during the night, Hurricane Kirk should arrive in France having “reaches category 4 in the middle of the Atlantic without touching any land surface so far”noted BFMTV.

For Tuesday, a total of 25 departments are affected from 6 a.m.: Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, Sarthe, Loir-et-Cher , Loiret, Eure-et-Loir, Yvelines, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Essonne, Paris, Vosges, Haute-Saône , Saône-et-Loire, Ardennes, Marne and Aube.

A possible reassessment of the level of vigilance

It will be a “rainy event to watch out for in Vendée and the Pays de Loire, its duration and intensity could lead to a reassessment of the level of vigilance. Stormy rains will affect the Maritime Alps in the evening, they should also be monitored and could cause the subject to an increase in the level of vigilance On the other hand, we will also monitor the evolution of the wind in the Lyon region, a wind expected to temporarily blow between 80 and 100 km/h in the late afternoon and evening. could turn out to be a little stronger”noted Vigi Weather France.

For the moment, Occitanie does not seem affected by the passage of the depression.