There is still a red alert in France. Autumn storm “Alex” hit the Atlantic coast on Friday night.
Thousands of people are without electricity.
The weather service is now warning of heavy rains and floods.
The
weather
* in
France is
putting people on
alert
.
On Thursday night,
storm “Alex” passed
over the Atlantic coast.
The
weather service
warns of falling trees and strong waves.
Update from October 2
: After the autumn storm "Alex" passed through, around 80,000 people in the north-west French coastal region of Brittany are without electricity.
Trees fell over in many communities and people were not harmed after an initial assessment, as the prefecture of the Breton department of Morbihan announced on Friday.
On the
island of Belle-Île-sur-Mer
off the coast of Brittany, gusts of up to
186 kilometers
per
hour were
measured
according to the radio news channel Franceinfo
.
The French weather service Météo France had already warned of "Alex" on Thursday.
Heavy rains are expected in south-east France.
In the region around Nice, schools remained closed, as Franceinfo reported.
J'appelle les laurentins à la plus EXTRÊME VIGILANCE, les averses sont conséquentes dans le moyen-haut pays.
The phenomena de ruissellement et crues sont donc à craindre dans les prochaines heures.
Tenez vous à l'écart du Var et de la mer #AlerteRouge # Meteo06 #Alex pic.twitter.com/FnrQMbbSi3
- Joseph SEGURA (@JosephSeguraSLV) October 2, 2020
France on alert: violent storm expected on the Atlantic coast - effects in Germany possible
First report from October 1, 2020:
Paris / Munich - In
France
, an impending
storm is putting
people on the
Atlantic coast
on
alert
.
In the night from
Thursday to Friday
, the storm called
"Alex"
is said to
sweep over the coastal regions on the Atlantic
with wind speeds of
more than 150 kilometers per hour
.
The storm could therefore be described
as a "hurricane"
in terms of
wind strength
*.
The
French weather service
Météo France
announced the impending
storm *
on Thursday.
The region of
Brittany
in north-western
France
with the cities of
Rennes
,
Lorient
and
Brest is
particularly affected by storm "Alex"
.
In the
Morbihan department in
particular,
warnings are issued against very strong winds.
The
area is marked in red
on the
Météo France
map
.
There is "absolute vigilance" at night, it says on the page.
🔴 1 dpt en #vigilanceRouge
🔶 8 dpts en #vigilanceOrange
Restez informés on https://t.co/rJ24zzmmy4 pic.twitter.com/djnRk0mVWY
- VigiMétéoFrance (@VigiMeteoFrance) October 1, 2020
In addition, the
weather service
warned of numerous
falling trees
.
In addition,
power outages are
also to be feared.
On the coast, the weather service warns of
strong waves
.
In the
south of France
is especially on
Friday
with
heavy rains
expected.
In
Germany
, too,
storm “Alex”
could make it
uncomfortable, as
reported
by
kachelmannwetter.com
and
Jörg Kachelmann
on
: “The storm low makes a few 'laps of honor' over France, 'it says there,“ and brings it until Sunday sometimes large amounts of rain. ”The current
weather
developments
in
Germany
can be found in our Germany weather.
In August, the low raged Kirsten in Bavaria.
Franconia was particularly hard hit.
There was even a warning from the German Weather Service for large parts of Bavaria.
(ph) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network
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