orange vigilance maintained in Corsica until Saturday evening

Caution remains in order. The departments of Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud were kept on orange alert “violent wind”, Saturday March 11, by Météo-France, which on the other hand lifted the alert for the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var. At midday, the gusts will still be around 140 to 160 km / h from Balagne to Cap Corse, from 120 to 140 km / h on the relief and around 100 to 120 km / h in the region Bastia. Vigilance must extend until 6 p.m.

Strong wind orange vigilance, lifted on Saturday morning for the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var, had already been lifted for the Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude and Hérault. These strong winds caused two minor injuries in the Alpes-Maritimes on Friday, according to the emergency services. The latter carried out about twenty interventions. The sixth stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race, which was to link Tourves (Var) to La Colle-sur-Loup (Alpes-Maritimes), was purely and simply canceled on Friday.