IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. Cévenol episode in Occitanie: 5 meter waves, violent winds… return to bad weather in the region

| March 27, 2024 | Health | No Comments

On Monday and Tuesday March 26, 2024, severe bad weather hit the south of France. The department of Hérault was placed on orange wave-submersion vigilance. A look back at these two days of bad weather.

A wild sky. Monday and Tuesday, violent bad weather hit the south of France. Strong winds, torrential rains, raging seas… Occitanie and the Paca region faced a Cévennes episode and a Mediterranean episode at the start of the week, just like the north of Spain.

A raging sea

Meteo Francehas placed Hérault on wave-submersion alert all day Tuesday for risks linked to swell. Videos from Internet users showing waves breaking on the coast have been shared dozens of times.

According to InfoOccitanie, waves reaching up to four, even five meters high surged on the coast. "Conditions are stormy on the shores of Hérault. Images of Sète where we note 105 km/h and submersive waves", recorded Météo Express&nbsp ;on X (Twitter) early Tuesday.

Rain and strong winds

A few hours later, the gusts reached 115 km/h closest to the sea. L&amp ;rsquo;alert was downgraded to yellow alert at the end of the day.

The rains, moderate, spread from the Toulouse plain to Languedoc.  This Monday evening, the wind begins to weaken between Midi-Toulouse and the south of the Massif Central, but became stronger in Provence, and finally in the Cévennes. The depression reached as far as Spain, where heavy rains were recorded.

"Heavy rains are blocking the Cévennes massif, generating very significant accumulations, up to 150 mm. This is the 5th episode in Cévennes since the beginning of February, which is quite unusual at this time of the year, posed La Chaîne Météo on Tuesday. This Wednesday morning, the disturbances are gradually evacuating towards Italy and Switzerland.

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