Weather: the weekend will be marked by gales and very heavy rain – Franceinfo

Be careful this weekend. The weekend will be “windy and heavily rainy”, Météo-France announcement, Friday October 1. This episode will result in “a gust of wind and heavy rainfall over the north-west of the country”, Saturday. In the morning, it will rain continuously and in the evening, this precipitation will be sustained from the Pays de la Loire to Hauts-de-France. “The accumulations can reach 40 to 60 mm, locally 60 to 80 mm “, specifies Météo-France. Gusts can reach up to 100 km / h on the Breton and Cotentin coasts, and between 60 km / h and 80 km / h inland, “between Vendée, Pays de la Loire and Normandy”.

The rains will intensify during the night and “the wind will blow hard on the Pyrenean ridges and in certain valleys.” The disruption will continue to progress on Sunday, in the south-east of the country. A rainy episode “high intensity” is planned on the Cévennes foothills, on Auvergne, Vivarais, the Lyon region, as well as Burgundy and Franche-Comté. Furthermore, “the winds will blow strongly on the east of the Massif Central and on the Rhône-Saône axis.”

️ #Pluies continues in the morning over the northwest, gradually sustained in the evening and until Sunday morning #Pays de la Loire, until #hautsdefrance. The accumulations can reach 40 to 60 mm, locally 60 to 80mm. pic.twitter.com/lXoD3iBwNE

– Météo-France (@meteofrance) October 1, 2021