Violent winds in Aveyron: gusts of more than 120 km/h recorded in Millau

Le vent a soufflé fort dans le Sud-Aveyron. AD

Le vent a également soufflé à 108 km/h à Soulobres, à 106 km/h sur les hauteurs de Ségur, 100 km/h près de Novis. 

Before the arrival of a rain-storm front expected in the evening, the wind plays overtime in South Aveyron with gusts recorded locally at more than 120 km/h. As at the summit of the Pouncho d’Agast with a maximum speed recorded at 121 km/h at 6 p.m. 

The wind also blew at 108km/h in Soulobres, at 106km/h on the heights of Ségur, 100km/h near Novis and on the Brunas flight area. The area record for the last 24 hours having been reached on Mont Aigoual in Gard with 143 km/h.

As Météo Sud Aveyron reminds us, "the rains are light on the southern end of the department but the mm’are accumulating with now almost 70 mm in the Croix de Mounis sector, more than 50 mm in Mélagues, 48 ​​mm in Roqueredonde, 40 mm in Brusque, 30 mm in Le Caylar, 12 mm at Hospitalet du Larzac and Nant."

The prefecture of Aveyron has thus issued a "yellow flood vigilance&quot bulletin. on the Haut-Tarn section. "The episode of Cevennes precipitation will increase in intensity during the night from Saturday to Sunday particularly in the Haut-Tarn sector where the section has passed yellow alert", develops the alert bulletin.