three departments still on orange alert

The Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and Puy-de-Dôme are still placed on orange flood alert, Météo France announces in its latest bulletin, published at 10 p.m.

Vigilance still ongoing. While the worst of the bad weather seems to have passed this Friday morning, three departments are still on orange flood alert, Météo-France announces in its bulletin published at 10 p.m.

Bouches-du-Rhône and Gard were until then one of the five departments on orange alert. Both departments are now on yellow alert.

This orange vigilance will still be in effect this Saturday. Earlier in the day, the orange rain-floods and thunderstorms alert was lifted in the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var, where showers are still possible, but no longer “justify maintaining the orange level”, explains the institute. During the rainy episode, the accumulations are close to 40 to 80 mm locally up to 150 to 250 mm in the west of the department.

Calm in the Cévennes and the South-West

Significant floods are spreading on the Rhône, from Avignon to the sea, on the Loire, Allier and Var. On the hills of the Cévennes, where particularly intense rain fell on Thursday, a lull is underway and the floods are well underway, but several rivers are experiencing damaging overflows.

In the Alpes-Maritimes, some occasional stormy precipitation will still occur and in the South-West, the rains will continue for a long time and generate significant accumulations of precipitation in places, explains Météo France. Over the entire rainy episode, accumulations of 50 to 90 mm of rain are expected with possible peaks of around 100 mm between the Lot and the Tarn.