After a particularly rainy night over a whole part of France, Météo-France is maintaining, this Tuesday, the “yellow vigilance” level concerning storms likely to hit 44 departments. In Marseille, affected by significant flooding, and in the Alpes-Maritimes, schools, nurseries, middle schools and high schools were closed this Tuesday.
The situation is not going to get better on Wednesday. This time, 19 departments will be placed on orange vigilance from 6 a.m. due to the arrival of ex-Hurricane Kirk, warns the organization on its website.
Strong winds
These are Hautes-Pyrénées, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, Sarthe, Loir -et-Cher, Loiret, Eure-et-Loir, Yvelines, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d’Oise, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Essonne and Paris.
“The southerly wind will strengthen quickly and blow very strongly to the west of the Pyrenees. Gusts could reach 120 km/h to 150 km/h on the summits and 100 km/h to 110 km/h in the valleys and plains,” he explains.
“Heavy rain”
“Associated with the Kirk depression”, “heavy and lasting rains” are forecast between Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire and the Paris region.
“The accumulations over the whole day will be very significant, they could reach 40 mm to 60 mm in the Paris Basin and 60 mm to 80 mm, or even locally 90 mm heading towards the Pays de Loire and Vendée,” explains Météo-France, specifying that this can represent the equivalent of a moment of rain, depending on the regions concerned.
