The weather alert is lifted in Gard and Hérault. The thunderstorms which crossed these two departments on Monday, placed in the course of the afternoon in “orange vigilance” by Météo-France, did not require the intervention of the firefighters despite abundant precipitation in places.
The end of this “Mediterranean episode”, a phenomenon synonymous with significant amounts of rain accompanied by thunderstorms, customary at this time of year in this region of southern France, was scheduled for the middle of the night, according to Météo-France . The orange “rain-flood” and “storms” vigilance decreed at 4 p.m. was lifted at 7 p.m. for Hérault and at 10 p.m. for Gard.
Firefighters reassure
“Everything is calm, there was no intervention on our part,” said a spokesperson for the Gard firefighters in the middle of the evening. Their neighbors in Hérault also did not report any intervention throughout the afternoon, although “intense precipitation” was observed, particularly in the Montpellier region.
Météo-France thus recorded 124 mm of water that fell in three hours in Prades-le-Lez, north of Montpellier, including 72 mm in one hour. Traffic axes located in the lower part of the city of Montpellier have been closed as a security measure, as well as parks, gardens and cemeteries, according to a press release from the town hall. They were reopened in the early evening.