Aveyron, Gard, Hérault, Lozère and Var are placed in alert orange this Tuesday by Météo France because of the risks of rain, flood and flood.

Météo France has placed, Tuesday at 4 pm, five departments in orange alert because of the risk of rain, flood and flood. These five departments are: Aveyron, Gard, Hérault, Lozère and Var.

"In the Mediterranean regions and Aveyron, the weather is now rather calm, even if some showers occur in places," says the bulletin. " At the end of the day, low rainfall will win the four departments placed on alert orange storms and rain-flood, these rains will continue over the next night, from Tuesday to Wednesday. They will strengthen in the second half of the next night, then even more tomorrow morning Wednesday taking a stormy character more and more marked. The storms will then be organized in lines that will give high intensities of rain in a short time, hail falls and strong gusts of wind, "he adds.

110,000 households still without electricity

Some 110,000 homes were still without electricity in France (excluding Corsica) on Tuesday in the middle of the afternoon after the heavy snow and rain that affected many French departments, said Enedis, the network manager. current distribution.

The main affected area is the Rhone Valley, where 62,500 customers have no power, in front of Auvergne (35,000 customers), detailed Enedis in a new information point about the situation around 15:00. Several thousand households are also concerned in the Limousin, the Center, the Alps, the north of the PACA region and Burgundy. The situation is therefore improving slowly since early in the day, Enedis had accounted for about 195 000 households without electricity.