Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: DENIS CHARLET / AFP 9:46 a.m., March 30, 2024
Significant floods are expected in Dordogne and Corrèze and overflows are expected locally in Charente, Haute-Vienne, Vienne and Indre-et-Loire, all classified in orange vigilance, Météo-France said.
Six departments in west-central France, from Indre-et-Loire to Dordogne, were placed on orange alert on Saturday morning for the risk of flooding, Météo-France announced. Significant floods are expected in Dordogne and Corrèze and overflows are expected locally in Charente, Haute-Vienne, Vienne and Indre-et-Loire, all classified in orange vigilance, Météo-France said.
“Soils that are already very wet”
According to Vigicrues, the rainy episodes of recent days occurring on "already very wet soils" are causing an increase in watercourses in New Aquitaine and the Grand Est, leading to overflows locally. In the rest of the country, 17 other departments have been placed on yellow flood alert and 42 on yellow alert for the risk of storms, mainly on the eastern coast, by Météo-France.
Passage to #vigilanceOrange of the sections #Isle upstream (#Dordogne) and #Vézère upstream (#Corrèze).
Stay informed at https://t.co/wS98gcDiHDpic.twitter.com/GNKvU2QWu7
— Vigicrues (@Vigicrues) March 30, 2024