Floods, ice, snow, avalanche ... Thirteen departments, already under surveillance Sunday, were placed in orange vigilance, this Monday morning, by Météo-France, announced the organization in its six-hour bulletin.

Ain, Haute-Savoie, Isère, Savoie, Puy-de-Dôme, Creuse, Corrèze, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques were placed in orange vigilance for snow and ice.

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Hundreds of evacuations

According to Météo-France, the arrival of snow will be a "non-exceptional episode, but sufficiently notable to cause traffic difficulties and disrupt certain economic activities". The Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées have also been placed on orange alert for avalanche risks. "Certain large-scale avalanches may threaten or reach exposed mountain infrastructures and roads, especially above 2000m", details the organization in its bulletin.

But that's not all.

Météo-France has also classified the Nord and Pas-de-Calais in orange vigilance for flood risks.

The firefighters had proceeded Sunday evening to about sixty evacuations of inhabitants in the North, affected by heavy rainfall, with "significant floods" reported in the Lys basin.

“Several municipalities have been impacted” in Inner Flanders with 65 people evacuated mainly in the towns of Esquelbecq and Wormhout, as well as in Arneke, said the firefighters of the North who recorded around thirty interventions in the early evening.

Flooding still possible

In the Pas-de-Calais, placed Sunday morning in orange vigilance, the firefighters identified in the middle of the afternoon 96 interventions, most for pumping in homes, mainly in Audomarois and especially in Arques, they said. indicated. The "important rainy episode" observed during the night in Hauts-de-France, and which "slowly shifts towards Belgium", caused "significant overflows on the rivers Lys upstream and Lawe-Clarence" , in Pas-de-Calais, while "floods are being spread" in the Lys basin in the North, said the Vigicrues site.

This "rainy activity will continue until the middle of the night, shifting slowly to the east," according to Vigicrues.

Under these conditions, "significant flooding is possible", which could affect traffic conditions, the electricity supply or submerge the dikes, recalls the site.

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