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Hérault and Gard were placed on red alert on Wednesday due to violent storms and torrential rain. Hérault was on orange alert on Saturday morning before being downgraded to yellow at the end of the afternoon.
The Pyrénées-Orientales department will go into orange alert for rain and flooding this Sunday from six a.m., Météo-France announced this Saturday. The weather forecasting organization has also downgraded Hérault to yellow alert.
“A new active rain-storm system coming from Spain will affect the Pyrénées-Orientales from the end of the night from Saturday to Sunday, causing high rainfall intensities and significant accumulations of rain,” he warns in his bulletin.
Hérault and Aude in yellow
For its part, Hérault, which had been placed on orange vigilance this Saturday morning, returned to yellow rain-flood vigilance at the end of the afternoon. On Wednesday, Hérault and Gard had also switched to red alert in the face of violent storms and torrential rain.
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The Pyrénées-Orientales department will remain on orange alert for rain and flooding at least until Sunday morning.
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