2023-06-18 21:17:55
Thirty-three departments, from the Southwest to Hauts de France, via the Paris region, were on orange alert Sunday evening for thunderstorms, which led to flooding, a mini-tornado and disruption of train traffic.
Météo France noted that at the end of the afternoon, the stormy line extended from the Center to the Paris region and Upper Normandy, while thunderstorms started over Burgundy and thunderstorms from Spain were moving up. in the Bay of Biscay.
A burst at 99 km / h in Paris
Gusts of wind at 105 km/h were recorded in Orléans, as well as a “tornadic episode” in the town of Yvetot in Seine-Maritime, and hailstones “from 2 to 4 cm” in the Cher, still according to Météo-France. The wind also blew hard in Paris, with a gust recorded at 99 km / h by Météo-France at its station in Parc Montsouris, in the south of the capital.
On social networks, many videos showed streets in the city center of Dieppe (Seine-Martitime) transformed into torrents, while Météo-France mentioned in a press release “high rainfall intensities recorded in Normandie » .
Power cuts all over the place
These storms probably caused power cuts in Ile-de-France, with 11,000 homes without electricity in Val-d’Oise, announced the manager of the electricity transmission network RTE, who added that “(its) teams are during the intervention”.
About 1,000 homes were without power early Sunday evening in theYour. According Enedismore than 2,000 homes without electricity in the Sarthe at 8:30 p.m.
disrupted trains
These weather events also disrupted several train lines in the Paris region. “The entire rail network on Ile-de-France and the greater Paris basin is disrupted for the whole evening, with a large number of incidents. The teams intervene as they go, “said a spokesperson for the SNCF to AFP.
A gradual resumption of traffic is expected in the evening, with “a return to normal (Monday) morning”. The incidents began around 6.30 p.m., with trains blocked at the station in Paris, or held up in the provinces for those traveling towards the capital. At Creil station (Oise), the trains were still at the platform at 8 p.m., according to an AFP journalist. On the display boards, the delays were up to 1:40 a.m., the station master announcing that people were on the tracks.
Blocked roads
On the national 118, which allows to reach the capital from the south, floods blocked traffic at the height of Bièvres (Essonne), according to videos published on social networks, confirmed by the prefecture which specified that the direction of the roads ofIle-de-France (Dirif) was there.
At the start of the evening, the Val-d’Oise firefighters had around a hundred interventions in progress, mainly related to the wind (falling objects, electric wires, etc.), but no injuries were recorded at this stage.
Sting concert canceled
Before the storms passed, the City of Paris closed parks, gardens, squares and cemeteries from 4:30 p.m.
The concert of the British musician Stingwhich was to take place in the park of the Château de Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), has been canceled, announced the prefecture, as the last evening of the Rio Loco festival in Toulouse, according to a press release.
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