The Aude goes into orange rain-flood alert on Sunday morning

After the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Aude department will go into orange "rain-flood" alert on Sunday October 4 from six a.m., Météo-France announced on Saturday. “In the middle of the night from Saturday to Sunday, new rainy and stormy spells will affect the south of Languedoc Roussillon until the end of the day. They could be the cause of significant accumulations of rain.”, specifies the meteorological organization in its bulletin.

Hérault, which was on orange alert on Saturday morning, was downgraded late Saturday afternoon to yellow. On Wednesday, Hérault and Gard were placed on red alert, experiencing violent storms and torrential rain.

The Aude department, which had been placed on orange alert on Saturday morning, was first downgraded to yellow in the middle of the day. A further worsening of the situation in this territory bordering the Pyrénées-Orientales, where sustained rains are also expected, has pushed the meteorological organization to change its opinion. "During this episode, we expect significant rainfall intensities, of the order of 50 to 80 mm in a few hours, we can read in the Météo-France bulletin. Over the whole day, the accumulations could reach 80 to 120 mm, particularly over a large eastern half of the two departments, and occasional values ​​of 150 to 180 mm."