Hérault department placed on orange wave-submersion alert on Tuesday morning. Orange level is the third on a scale of four and calls on the public to be “very vigilant’ Wind gusts could reach 90 to 100 km/h, depending on the prefecture.
Authorities insist on the need to respect precautionary instructions after the violent bad weather which caused the death of eight people in the south-east of France in early March, swept away by swollen rivers.