Bad weather: orange vigilance maintained in the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes

The stormy episode continues in France. If Météo-France lifted the orange vigilance on Corsica at 8 a.m., two departments in the Paca region – Var and Alpes-Maritimes – remain affected. This, while the stormy episode in Ardèche, Drôme, Isère and Hautes-Alpes has ended.

Violent gusts and rain

The Var and the Alpes-Maritimes are also placed on orange alert for rain-floods for the morning, with up to 120 mm of precipitation possible.

Canceled flights

In Corsica, before the alert was lifted, “as a preventive measure, 1,360 people accommodated in outdoor accommodation were sheltered in the department”, specifies the prefecture, welcoming the mobilization of “nearly 450 agents” from the firefighters, the security forces, the Corsican Community and the regional natural park. At Ajaccio airport on Friday morning, several flights to Nice, Lyon, Basel-Mulhouse or Nantes were canceled. Flights to Nice and Nantes were also canceled at Bastia airport. The Haute-Corse firefighters reported no intervention linked to bad weather at 6:40 a.m. Access to forest areas, rivers, bodies of water and hiking trails was “prohibited” from Thursday 8:00 p.m. to Friday 11:00 p.m., the prefectures of Corsica announced Thursday evening.

In the Alpes-Maritimes and Var, many events, including festivals, night markets or sports outings were canceled on Thursday, and parks, gardens and cemeteries were closed to the public. The prefect of Var, Simon Babre, reporting 1,000 homes without electricity during a first stormy episode, called on residents to “avoid travel”.