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Heavy rain, risk of flooding: Pas-de-Calais and the North placed on orange alert

2024-02-08T06:02:58.504Z

Highlights: Heavy rain, risk of flooding: Pas-de-Calais and the North placed on orange alert. Floods which could cause further flooding are anticipated, even if the risk is “limited” The anticyclone which has protected France for several days gives way to a “disturbed” west to southwest flow. A calm will occur in the evening this Thursday before the arrival of “further showers during the night and the day on Friday” The significant precipitation will occur on saturated soils, in connection with the exceptional rainfall of recent months.


Floods which could cause further flooding are anticipated, even if the risk is “limited”.


The anticyclone which has protected France for several days, bringing calm and dry weather, gives way to a “disturbed”

west to southwest flow

with a

“succession of active rainy episodes in the far north of the France between Wednesday and Friday

,” warns

La Chaîne Météo

*.

This Thursday, February 8, the specialized site places the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais on orange alert.

A bad omen for the inhabitants of this department which has been particularly affected by bad weather in recent months.

This Thursday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is once again visiting the victims of the floods in Pas-de-Calais, accompanied by the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu.

precipitation will occur on saturated soils.

The Weather Channel

Saturated soils

This significant precipitation, specifies

La Chaîne Météo

,

“will occur on saturated soils, in connection with the exceptional rainfall of recent months”

.

They will therefore lead to

“moderate reactions of watercourses with floods which could cause further flooding, even if the risk is limited”

.

However, the rains are not

“particularly intense and spread out over time”

, which should limit the risk of overflow.

A calm will occur in the evening this Thursday before the arrival of

“further showers during the night and the day on Friday”

.

Source: lefigaro

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