Eleven departments on the Atlantic coast are also placed on orange “wave-submersion” vigilance for Sunday, awaiting “high tides” caused by the Karlotta depression.
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Météo-France has placed four departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on orange alert for a risk of flooding, Saturday February 10. This concerns Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
“An episode of strong tides” adds to “unfavorable weather conditions which generate a persistent storm surge as well as increasing river flows”, specifies the agency. The Gironde estuary, the confluence of the Adour and the Nive, that of the Garonne and the Dordogne, and the Seudre may be subject to small to significant overflows, specifies Vigicrues. A time concerned by orange vigilance for floods, Pas-de-Calais left the alert threshold in the evening.
Météo-France had already announced that eleven departments on the west coast would also be placed on orange “wave-submersion” vigilance on Sunday: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Morbihan, Finistère, Côtes d ‘Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine and the Manche.
