Pas-de-Calais, already placed on orange flood alert, is now affected by a rain-flood alert. Furthermore, the Vosges are placed on orange flood alert. In total, nine departments are affected by vigilance.
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Residents of Pas-de-Calais continue to worry. While President Emmanuel Macron is expected in this department battered by several days of rain, Pas-de-Calais, already in orange for flooding, was also placed on Tuesday, November 14, in orange for rain flooding.
🔶 9 departments in Orange pic.twitter.com/oNI21X1kIY
— VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) November 14, 2023
The Vosges are for their part placed on orange flood alert by Météo France. In total, nine departments are placed on orange alert this morning. Vendée, Charente-Maritime, Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Vosges, Doubs, Jura for floods. The orange rain-flood alert concerns Pas-de-Calais, Haute-Savoie and Savoie.
Pas-de-Calais, which has already suffered storm Ciaran on November 2, record floods on November 7 and intense precipitation on Thursday and Friday, will experience accumulations of rain “probably irregular on the scale of the department” in course of the day. The seven rivers of the department monitored by Vigicrues are on orange flood alert: the Liane, the Lys upstream and the Lawe-Clarence, the Canche, the Lys plaine, the Hem and the Aa.