Météo-France announces, in its 6 a.m. bulletin on Saturday, September 7, a “Active rainstorm situation in much of the country this afternoon, this evening and the night from Saturday to Sunday.” Five departments (Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Dordogne and Hautes-Pyrénées) remain on orange alert for risk of rain and flooding until at least 3 p.m. The Hautes-Pyrénées are also on orange alert for risk of flooding, and the meteorologist expects the alert to end on Sunday.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques (rain-floods and floods) as well as the Landes (floods) have returned to yellow, the agency underlines in its latest update. Météo-France reported “accumulations greater than 100 millimetres in the upper chain” of the High Pyrenees, with “170 millimetres, for example, in Gavarnie”.
The rains fell “often between 40 and 80 millimeters” in the Atlantic Pyrenees, with “points more than 100 millimeters towards the relief”The same source specifies. Peaks of between 150 and 250 millimetres are still expected near the Spanish border, warns Météo-France.
In the west of the Massif Central, the public establishment noted “fairly widespread accumulations of 40 to 70 millimetres, peaks at 80 millimetres”But the storms will continue and the figure could be around “100 millimeters” innovative.
Elsewhere in France, an active line of thunderstorms will cross eastern Occitania in the afternoon, towards Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hauts-de-France. There will be brief but intense showers, occasionally accompanied by hail and gusts of wind.
