(ANSA) - PARIS, 02 OCT - Gusts over 150 kilometers per hour during the passage of storm Alex, the first autumn storm that raged this night in western France, causing little damage, while heavy rains and thunderstorms are expected in the south-east of the country declared in red alert inducing the authorities to interrupt the railway traffic between Toulon and Ventimiglia.
From 12:00 all high-speed trains (Tgv) bound for Nice will have to stop 150 km earlier, in Toulon.
A provision that already applies to all other trains from 11: 00, announced the prefecture of the department of Alpes-Maritimes, placed today on red alert for rains and floods.
In practice, from 11:00 all railway traffic between Toulouse-Nice-Ventimiglia was interrupted, as well as between Nice, Breil / Roya and Tende, the SNCF specifies.
Beyond the Alps, the night was particularly agitated.
Record fires have been reported in Brittany, western France, at Belle-Ile-en-Mer and Groix, respectively at 186km / h and 157 km / h.
Two Breton departments remain orange invigilance even today.
In the south and east of the country, eleven other departments are on red alert due to the high risk of flooding.
This morning, at 8:30, there were 100,000 households left without electricity in Brittany, according to supplier Enedis.
Enedis specified that "supplementary teams will strengthen the local teams mobilized to re-feed their customers as soon as possible".
(HANDLE).
