Storm Boelo: Rain, wind and 56 departments on alert this Sunday

We changed the time but not the weather. After several days in the wind and rain of storm Austen, it is the turn of storm Boelo to water a large part of the country.

This Sunday, the southwest wind continues to blow “quite strongly”, notes Météo-France, which predicts gusts flirting with 100 km/h. Forecasters have placed 56 departments on yellow alert for winds, rain and floods. The entire Atlantic coast is also placed on wave-submersion alert. The orange vigilance in force in Pas-de-Calais on Saturday evening has been lifted. The department is on yellow alert.

Showered by storm Austen, Brittany and Normandy will gradually regain some clearing this Sunday. “Behind the disturbance, first from Brittany to Hauts-de-France in the morning, clearings develop but are interspersed with showers and the westerly wind reaches 70 to 90 km/h in gusts near the Channel, 60 to 70 km/h inland,” warns Météo-France. Saturday evening, 72,000 homes remained without electricity, including 50,000 in Normandy and Brittany alone. Enedis teams continue to work to restore power.

If the Boelo storm does not worry about its intensity in our territory, it raises some questions about the accumulation of rain with “abundant precipitation” over several days. It notably caused some damage in Belgium, uprooting trees and branches. It was more expected in the north of the British Isles.

Risks of submersion on the coast