The Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Landes, placed in red vigilance on Friday, returned to orange vigilance on Saturday morning for, among other things, flooding and avalanche risks.
"
One can reasonably think, in view of the flows coming from upstream, that the flood peaks will be reached during the night and this Saturday morning, but these very high levels could be maintained all weekend
" specifies The weather channel * , which maintains "
an orange alert level for the downstream part of the Adour
".
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Precipitation will continue in the morning over the Pyrenees but with significantly decreasing intensities.
By midday, only 5 to 10 mm of additional precipitation is expected over the entire massif.
A bridge in Bayonne on Saturday December 10.
GAIZKA IROZ / AFP
As for the risk of avalanches, as "light
snowfalls persist intermittently above 600 meters
", this becomes "
the most problematic, with possible spontaneous releases of cold and light snow under the effect of the thickness of the snowpack that has fallen since Thursday,
”added The weather channel.
Saturday afternoon, only light snowfall persisted on the terrain.
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Friday evening, the two departments were in red vigilance, awaiting the recession of rivers and torrents, out of their beds since the day before because swollen by abundant rains and the melting of part of the snowpack in the Pyrenees.
In Bayonne the Nive overflowed onto the quays.
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* The Weather Channel is owned by the Figaro group.
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