Weather: Gironde and Landes always orange alert – L’Express

Alert partly removed. The orange alert for strong wind was lifted Sunday morning on the Gers, Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées, France Weather announced in its newsletter of 6 hours. In contrast, an orange alert “flood” was held in the Landes and Gironde. Dance departments of Morbihan and Finistère, nearly 2,000 homes are also still without power, according to ERDF. Same in Loire-Atlantique and Vendée, where 1,700 homes are affected, and 200 in Dordogne as France Bleu Perigord.

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The alert for the four departments of the Southwest was launched Saturday evening and resulted in “the 95 to 107 km / h gusts inland “and” 110 to 130 km / h in sea, “said Meteo France. Saturday, up to 21,000 homes were without electricity as a result of strong winds that swept Brittany and the Loire Valley.

The limited damage

The damages were limited Saturday despite many falling branches and trees due to strong winds. A falling tree damaged a particular catenary near Vannes, in Morbihan, immobilizing for about half past four TGV which was flying between Quimper and Paris, have we learned from the SNCF. And in Finistère, the connection between Douarnenez and Sein Island was suspended Saturday because of this winter storm.

In its newsletter, Météo France provides that the time should remain “sullen” Sunday, “backed with rains in the Auvergne morning to Burgundy to the north of the Alps.” North of the Loire and the northeast, “the showers are more numerous and locally thundery with sleet coast of Brittany to the Normandy coast” said Meteo France, adding that “further south, the sky is charged with passing showers but more continuous rainfall on the mountains. ”