Bad weather: four departments of the South-West still on orange alert to floods and floods – franceinfo

From red to orange. The Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Landes, placed in extreme vigilance Friday evening, returned to orange vigilance on Saturday 11 December. With the Hautes-Pyrénées and the Gers, this makes four departments in the South-West which remain alert to floods and floods. On the other hand, the alert is lifted Ariège and Haute-Garonne.

According to the morning bulletin of the meteorological service, the precipitation will continue in the morning over the Pyrenean massif but with significantly decreasing intensities, which will no longer justify maintaining orange vigilance beyond 10 hours.

By midday, only 5 to 10 mm of additional precipitation is expected over the entire massif, specifies Météo France. Flurries will also continue, but “very weakened way”.

In the east, the orange warning for avalanches in Isère, Savoie and Haute-Savoie has been lifted by Météo France. Corn “the risk of avalanches is significant, the risk is there, you must not leave secure areas”, recommends on franceinfo Jean-Luc Boch, the mayor of La Plagne-Tarentaise in Savoie.