Marlène Duret, with AFP 8:52 p.m., November 09, 2021, modified at 8:53 p.m., November 09, 2021
The island of beauty has been placed on orange rain-flood alert for thunderstorms expected from 10 p.m. and until late Wednesday afternoon by Météo-France. The expected rainfall phenomenon is qualified as "serious" by the meteorological organization even if it is "not exceptional", with accumulations expected for the entire episode between 100 and 120 mm, and locally 150 mm.
Météo-France on Tuesday placed the whole of Corsica on an orange rain-flood alert for thunderstorms expected from 10 p.m. and until the end of the afternoon on Wednesday, the prefecture announcing the closure of several high schools and colleges by precaution Wednesday.
The expected rainfall phenomenon is qualified as "serious" by the meteorological organization even if it is "not exceptional", with cumulative amounts expected for the entire episode between 100 and 120 mm, and locally 150 mm over the eastern slopes of the Corsican relief, and up to 80 mm on the coast.
Significant amounts of rain
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, thunderstorms will affect the south and east of Corsica, Météo-France specifies. In the middle of the night, these thunderstorms should intensify with rainfall intensities of the order of 30 mm / h and accumulations over three hours which could reach "60 to 80 mm". After a lull at the end of the night and in the morning of Wednesday, a new thunderstorm line should rise from the South and bring from the end of the morning moderate to heavy rains over eastern Corsica until the end of the afternoon. midday, with intensities of the order of 20 to 30mm / h.
The #Corse is placed in #VigilanceOrange for a risk of #PluieInondation by @meteofrance.
️ High amounts of rain expected between Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening.
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- Ministry of the Interior (@Interieur_Gouv) November 9, 2021
The thunderstorm line should then lose activity as it progresses northward and evacuate on Wednesday evening.
Due to this meteorological vigilance, the prefecture of Haute-Corse announced that the high schools and colleges of Cervione, Corte and Fium'Orbu, would be closed on Wednesday.
School transport serving the areas of Cervione, the eastern plain and Cortenais (central Corsica) will also be suspended on Wednesday, she said.
"Make maximum use of telework"
The prefect of Haute-Corse François Ravier "calls on the population of the area between Aleria, Corte and Solenzara to avoid all travel as much as possible" on Wednesday and invites companies to "make maximum use of telework".
Météo-France calls for the greatest vigilance, recommending to avoid moving, to move away from waterways, especially not to take a submerged road.
At the beginning of October, the eastern plain had already been placed on meteorological orange alert and affected by a stormy episode which had given rise to flooding and mudslides in about twenty municipalities where the state of natural disaster had been recognized.