Europe 1 with AFP (Colin Abgrall video) 9:15 p.m., August 16, 2022, modified at 9:18 p.m., August 16, 2022
Due to torrential rain which fell late Tuesday afternoon, traffic was temporarily disrupted Tuesday evening in public transport in Paris and Ile-de-France.
By 7 p.m., more than 40 millimeters of rain had fallen in the space of 90 minutes, according to Météo France records.
Traffic was temporarily disrupted on Tuesday evening in public transport in Paris and Ile-de-France due to severe weather, thunderstorms qualified as "very intense" but not "record" by Météo France.
At 7 p.m., more than 40 millimeters of rain had fallen in the space of 90 minutes, according to Météo France readings at the Parc Montsouris station, i.e. almost "70% of what normally falls in a cumulative month". said a spokesperson to AFP.
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Several metro stations had to close temporarily
The monthly precipitation normal 1991-2020 for this station is indeed 58 millimeters, he adds, and has just been exceeded on Tuesday after two recent episodes of rain (Sunday and Tuesday, editor's note).
Météo France also placed eight departments of the Mediterranean arc on Tuesday in orange vigilance due to the risk of potentially violent storms, in particular if they are stationary, which could lead to heavy accumulations of rain.
Shortly after 6 p.m., several stations of the Paris metro - on lines 10, 12, 6, 9, 4 and 8 in particular - had successively closed their access due to bad weather and in particular rainwater which ran down certain stairs giving access at the docks.
Shortly after 8 p.m., the Corentin-Celton and Porte d'Orléans stations had reopened to the public, according to the RATP website.
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Disruptions to public transport
The traffic which had been disrupted on the whole of line 6 of the metro had returned to normal, only the accesses to the Daumesnil station remaining closed.
Similarly, the Quai de la Rapée, Ledru-Rollin, Alma-Marceau and Maubert-Mutualité stations remained closed, unserved or partially served, while traffic remained interrupted on the entire Orlyval line "due to heavy rain. ".
On line H, traffic remained "slow between Paris Gare du Nord and Persan Beaumont in both directions via Valmondois" due to "degraded weather conditions".
After major disruptions on line J between Paris Saint-Lazare and Ermont-Eaubonne, Gisors and Mantes-la-Jolie via Conflans Sainte-Honorine in both directions, the Twitter account for this line indicated shortly before 8 p.m. that traffic was returning “gradually back to normal on these traffic axes”.