Bad weather: orange vigilance for rain-flood and thunderstorms has been lifted in Haute-Corse – franceinfo

A few hours after the end of the red vigilance in the Bouches-du-Rhône and Marseille, where a district was evacuated preventively in the face of thunderstorms, the orange alert was lifted Monday, October 4 in the middle of the evening in the South-East and in Haute-Corse, according to the latest Météo France bulletin.

The mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, warned Monday morning against a “unprecedented stormy episode” claiming that it was “the first time in twenty years” that the city was placed in red vigilance. In June 2019, a red alert was triggered in the Bouches-du-Rhône, but because of the heatwave.

Preventively, in the Saint-Loup district of the Phocaean city, the inhabitants of houses located on the edge of the Huveaune, a river placed on Monday in orange vigilance to the floods, were even evacuated (before 2 p.m.) and transported by coach to a gymnasium .

In the city it fell in one night “the equivalent of several months of precipitation”, up to 180 mm of water, according to Météo France. Locally, certain sectors of Bouches-du-Rhône could have received water accumulations of 240 mm once this episode ended.

The authorities had multiplied the messages of caution to the Marseillais, asking them to pick up their children from school just one hour after the start of lessons, then to stay at home.