Météo-France announces, in its 6 o’clock bulletin for Saturday, September 7a “rainy and stormy situation active over a large part of the country this afternoon, this evening and the night from Saturday to Sunday.” Five departments – Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze, Dordogne and Hautes-Pyrénées – are thus maintained 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, with the forecaster expecting the alert to end on Sunday.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques (rain-flood and floods) as well as the Landes (floods) have, for their part, returned to yellow, the agency underlines in its latest update. Météo-France reported “accumulations greater than 100 millimeters on the high chain” from the Hautes-Pyrénées, with “170 millimeters, for example, in Gavarnie”.
The rains have poured “often between 40 and 80 millimeters” in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, with “points greater than 100 millimeters towards the relief”specifies the same source. Peaks between 150 and 250 millimeters are still expected near the Spanish border, warns Météo-France.
In the west of the Massif Central, the public establishment noted “accumulations of 40 to 70 millimeters fairly widespread, peaks at 80 millimeters”. But the stormy rains will continue and the figure could reach around “100 millimeters” cutting edge.
In the rest of France, an active line of storms will cross eastern Occitanie in the afternoon, towards Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hauts-de-France. It will give fairly brief but intense rains, sometimes accompanied by hail and gusts of wind.
