The “Karlotta”
depression
will result in 11 departments on the Atlantic coast and the entrance to the English Channel being placed on orange wave-submersion alert, according to Météo-France.
“Significant wave heights of 3 m at Pierres Noires and 2 m at Noirmoutier”
are expected, adds the meteorological site in its 6 a.m. bulletin.
The eleven departments concerned are as follows:
the Channel
Ille-et-Vilaine
Côtes-d’Armor
Finistère
Morbihan
Loire-Atlantique
Vendée
Charente-Maritime
the Gironde
The Landes
the Pyrenees-Atlantiques.
Present this Saturday morning in the south of Ireland,
“Karlotta”
will continue its course towards the south-west of England to arrive Sunday morning on the French coast.
The
“risk is marked at high tide” with
“powerful”
waves
, warns Météo-France, which adds that a
“long northwest swell is spreading in the Bay of Biscay”
.
“The coastline from the west of the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay is then placed on orange level wave-submersion alert for high seas on Sunday morning.”