Nine departments remain on orange alert for floods and rain-flooding

Nine departments are on orange alert for the risk of flooding and rain-flooding, Friday June 21. These are Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret for the rain-flood alert and Mayenne, Maine-et-Loire, Nièvre, Yonne, Savoie and Isère for flood risks. Vigilance has been lifted in Hautes-Alpes and Sarthe. In its bulletin, Météo-France reports significant amounts of rain, with “hourly intensities over the last hour frequently of 10 to 20 mm in Eure-et-Loir, the north of Loir-et-Cher and the west of Loiret. At 9 a.m., we noted for example in Orléans 13, 9 mm in one hour and 31.6 mm in three hours”.

The red alert for Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire was also lifted on Friday morning, after a “exceptional flood in the Craon sector” and an “moderate flood in the Segré sector” on the Oudon. In other departments on “flood” alert, the Vigicrues site mentions a phenomenon “important for the season” on the Yonne upstream, “significant flood” on the Arc and a “moderate to fairly strong flood” downstream of the Romanche, in Isère.