While Reunion is still healing the wounds left by Cyclone Batsirai, whose passage at the beginning of the month caused more than 47 million euros in damage, the island is back on orange hurricane alert.
This time, cyclone Emnati should pass about 300 km north of the island on Sunday evening, the prefecture said in a statement.
During the night from Sunday to Monday and during the day on Monday, the winds could exceed 120 km / h on the coast and 140 km / h in the interior of the island, where heavy rains could fall according to Meteo France .
In orange alert, economic life continues normally but all schools must close their doors.
Concerns over a stranded tanker
A passage on red alert, synonymous with total confinement of the population with the exception of the emergency services and the police, has not been mentioned by the authorities at this stage.
The meteorologists also indicate that the expected deterioration should be "one notch below the conditions known for Batsirai" which skirted the coasts of the island on February 3 and 4, causing significant damage, before continuing its route to Madagascar where it was fatal to 111 people.
A deterioration in sea conditions is also expected from Saturday evening.
"The state of the current swell and its expected deterioration in the coming hours do not allow the deployment of effective response strategies at sea", specifies the prefecture in reference to the operations planned to fight against pollution from a stranded Mauritian ship. on the island during a cyclone in February.
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