the truce continues, more so than in Loir-et-Cher which is on orange alert due to floods

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2024-10-13 09:58:00

In Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières (Eure-et-Loir), 11 October 2024.

Four days after the passage of Kirk’s depression over France, the situation had changed “relatively calm”, Sunday 13 October in the morning, on the rivers in flood following the storm. Only the Loir-et-Cher department is kept on orange alert, Météo-France announced his latest newsletter. The full alert in the Eure-et-Loir has returned to yellow, with the reduction of vigilance on the upstream stretch of the Eure, according to the meteorologist and the government organization Vigicrues.

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“The weather situation is relatively calm in the flooded catchment areas. The rains forecast for this Sunday and tomorrow, Monday, will be weak in the north of the country and should not counteract the tendency of the rivers to retreat. In these conditions the current floods continue their slow propagation downstream”Vigicrues details in an update posted Sunday morning.

However, according to Vigicrues, significant flooding is still spreading on the Loir Vendômois, in Loir-et-Cher. “In the Vendôme sector, the level reached its maximum on Saturday evening and the decline began. Levels remain high. Further downstream, in Villavard, the flood peak is expected on Sunday afternoon, with damaging flood levels.completes the monitoring service.

At the end of the wettest month of September in the last twenty-five years, the total annual rainfall average has already been exceeded almost everywhere in metropolitan France.

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