Eight departments remain on orange alert for risks of flooding, rain-flooding or waves-submersion

Eight departments remain on orange alert, Sunday October 29, due to bad weather linked to the passage of storm Céline off the coast of Ireland. Vendée is alert due to a wave-submersion phenomenon, due to a “episode of strong waves in a context of high tides”specifies Météo-France.

Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, Charente and Charente-Maritime are, for their part, placed on rain-flood alert. Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes are on orange alert for floods. “The active rainy front concerns Poitou-Charentes. We expect around 10 to 20 millimeters locally, more mainly in the south of the region, details Météo-France. Over the episode, the accumulations will often be between 40 mm and 80 mm in these departments.”