Seventeen departments in the northwest quarter, from Vendée to the Paris region, will be on orange alert for “rain-flooding”. The Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Hautes-Pyrénées will be placed on orange alert for violent winds.
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Unstable weather that is moving. In its 2 p.m. bulletin on Tuesday October 8, Météo-France placed 19 departments in the West and the Paris region on orange vigilance from Wednesday morning. Seventeen of them are affected by the risk of “rain-flooding”: Eure-et-Loir, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne and Val-d’Oise. Added to this are the departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées placed on “wind” vigilance.
In the east of the country, on the other hand, the time has come for appeasement. No longer is any department on orange “rain-flood” alert. As a precaution, the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes has taken the decision to close nurseries, schools, middle schools and high schools throughout the department for the entire day on Tuesday.
Météo-France highlights the intensity “outstanding” precipitation over the last 24 hours, from the Mediterranean to the Vosges, and “especially” in the plain resorts of Burgundy-Franche-Comté. He fell “up to 60 mm in 1 hour under Cevennes storms”.