Weather Alert: strong gale announced on Channel 16 departments in Orange Alert – Science and Future

Rennes (AFP) – A strong gust of wind over the Channel, with the risk of flooding on the coast, is expected until Tuesday morning, said Sunday Weather in France placing vigilance orange sixteen departments, whose inhabitants are called “extreme caution”.

This “episode of stormy winds near the coast of the Channel” is expected from Monday 3:00 am. It comes with “a remarkable episode of very strong waves extending to the whole of the Atlantic seaboard,” said Meteo France.

The Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Seine-Maritime, Calvados, la Manche, the Cotes d’Armor and Finistère were placed in orange alert for wind and wave-submersion.

Ille-et-Vilaine , Brittany, Loire-Atlantique, Vendée, Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques have been orange alert for wave-submersion.

in a statement, Bernard Cazeneuve “called the people of the Atlantic coasts of the English Channel and the North Sea for the greatest caution.”

the Minister reminded that he is “strongly advised not to approach the sea, estuaries, coastal rivers and dams, to limit its movements strictly necessary, to particular attention to falling trees, poles, or objects such as signs. “

“in case of power failure, it is imperative not to use thermal generators inside buildings to prevent fatal risk of poisoning,” the statement added.

Weather France “expects gusts (…) around 100 km / h in inland” in the night from Sunday to Monday and expects the strongest gusts in the second part of the night.

“We expect values ​​to the interior, the departments of the coast of the Channel, around 110 to 120 km / h, sometimes occasionally on the coast up to 130 km / h or 140 km / h on caps, “said Meteo France.

According to the institute on Monday,” the stormy winds will gradually spread to the Pas-de-Calais and the North “.

strong winds “will generate and maintain very strong waves on the Atlantic coast and west of the English Channel. These particularly powerful waves will gradually amplify Monday on the Atlantic coast and the English Channel to reach remarkable heights “, plus a risk of” premium “(raising of the sea level), due to the tidal coefficient (90 and 96 Monday morning Monday night).

This combination of high coefficients and high waves “may result, especially at high tide, flooding of the exposed or vulnerable parts of the coast the departments concerned. “

Weather France encourages extreme caution along the coast but also inland because of the power of the winds expected. the interior Ministry said that “preventive and surveillance measures” have been taken, as in the Vendee, where “water rescue teams were mobilized early.”