06:05: All red alerts are lifted this Friday morning but 18 departments remain on orange alert. The Cévennes episode is over. A few showers are still possible, but not comparable to the rainy episode of the last two days.
– In the Alpes Maritimes and the Var: the possible stormy showers today no longer justify maintaining the orange level.
– In the South-West departments on orange alert: particularly long-lasting rains continue until the morning or even early afternoon. In total for the episode (started yesterday), we expect accumulations of around 50 to 70 mm in the departments on orange alert, locally 70 to 100 mm from the Causses du Quercy to the Tarn plain via the north west Aveyron.
– In Center Val-de-Loire and the Paris basin, some precipitation is still possible, but no longer justifies maintaining the orange level.
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05:38: The fall of a tree in the north of Paris (19th arrondissement), hit by heavy rains on Thursday, left one dead and two injured, AFP learned from a police source. A tree fell in the early evening on the road as a man and two children passed by, “in circumstances which will be established and in the context of bad weather”, this source told AFP. The man was seriously injured before dying.
The two children were taken into care in relative urgency, the police source further clarified. A medical-psychological emergency unit was on the scene.
05:00: full update at 5:00 this morning – Nearly 900 people were evacuated by emergency services on Thursday in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where four departments are on red alert for flooding or high water. The Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Thursday described the episode of torrential rains which hit certain areas of Ardèche as “absolutely massive” and spoke of an “unprecedented situation”.
The town center of Annonay in Ardèche is flooded and schools and nurseries were evacuated Thursday morning. The flooded A47 motorway was closed between Lyon and Saint-Etienne and rail traffic between the two cities suspended.
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