On the other hand, Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne and Ariège have been demoted to “orange”.
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Two departments remain in red vigilance. The Landes and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques are kept in this vigilance for risks of “floods”, due to the accumulation of intensive rains on the Pyrenean chain, announced Monday January 10 in the afternoon in the afternoon of Météo France. On the other hand, the Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne and Ariège are downgraded to “orange”. “The rains continue but they will quickly decrease in intensity” to stop “totally” Tuesday early in the morning, said the weather operator in his last bulletin.
In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, school transport was suspended in the Aspe and Ossau valleys, and train traffic was interrupted for the day between Pau, Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Bedous, then between Bayonne and Puyoo, according to Prefecture.
“We may be teasing a record that we could do without”, told AFP Bernard Uthurry, the mayor of the Béarn municipality of Oloron-Sainte-Marie where the flood level of the Gave d’Oloron, classified red, should reach in the coming hours, between 4.75 m and 5.10 m, close to the historical levels of June 2018 (5.27 m). “So far there has been no glaring damage, there has been less” than during the previous episode in December, according to the municipal councilor of 10,800 inhabitants.
In the plain, in the Landes, the situation is “calm” without interventions related to bad weather, the prefecture told AFP. In the Peyrehorade sector, the Gave d’Oloron had come out of its bed with a strong flow, without causing damage, AFP noted. According to the prefecture, “the flood could be lower than that of December 2021”, which had resulted in the evacuation of dozens of people.