Jura, Ain, Isère, Drôme and Ardèche on orange alert before heavy showers forecast for Monday evening

2023-10-23 08:06:04

In anticipation of a rainy-stormy episode expected in the evening, Météo-France has placed five departments in the east and south-east of France on orange rain flood alert, Monday October 23. Jura, Ain, Isère, Drôme and Ardèche are affected. Precipitation totals that should be included “between 70 and 100 mm”, will be able to exceed 100 mm occasionally between Ardèche and Ain »notes the public establishment in his morning bulletin.

“At 6 a.m. this Monday morning, the disturbed system, called Bernard, comes back from Spain giving precipitation over the Pyrenees and part of the south of the country », Reports Météo-France, adding that“it is accompanied by a clear strengthening of the wind on the Pyrenean ridges, the Autan corridor, the Massif Central, the coast of the Gulf of Lion”.

It is as a result of the arrival of this depression above the country that “a rain-storm axis will set up from the Cévennes to the Jura” in the evening. The episode should last “until Tuesday morning”, specifies the meteorological organization.

Before that, north of the Loire to the north-eastern quarter, the sky will become cloudy from the south and rainy weather from New Aquitaine will set in on Monday morning, before being limited to the regions close to the English Channel. and the Belgian border in the afternoon.

In Aquitaine, clearings will alternate with clouds from the morning, with sometimes a few showers. On the Pyrenees ridges and Languedoc-Roussillon, sometimes heavy rain will occur in the morning.

Around midday, from the north-east of Aquitaine and the north of Midi-Pyrénées to Limousin, Center-Val de Loire, a stormy deterioration will take place. It will then move from the north of Occitanie to Auvergne, Burgundy and Champagne. At the end of the afternoon, very disturbed conditions will develop from the north-east of Occitanie to Lorraine, while from the Provences-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region to the Alps, showers will become more frequent , Corsica remaining generally spared.

The World with AFP