Storms in the Midi: Seven departments put on Orange alert.

Posted on November 2, 2015 by bill

Orages : sept départements du sud placés en vigilance orange

par Rédaction de France Info lundi 2 novembre 2015 10:54, mis à jour le lundi 2 novembre 2015 à 16h20

De violents orages sont attendus dans le sud de la France © MaxPPP

Météo France a placé lundi l’Aude, l’Aveyron, le Gard, la Haute-Garonne, l’Hérault, les Pyrénées-Orientales et le Tarn en vigilance orange, en raison d’orages accompagnés de fortes pluies et de vent attendus dans la journée et la nuit prochaine.

Météo France have put (on Monday) Aude, Aveyron, Gard, Haute-Garonne, Hérault, Pyrénées-Orientales and Tarn on Orange alert, reason being the storms will be accompanied by heavy rains and high winds both day and the following night.

Selon Météo France, le vent d’Autan se renforce, ce qui nécessite une vigilance particulière. Il atteindra en première partie de nuit prochaine les 100-130 km/h aux abords de la Montagne Noire, et 100-110 km/h en plaine, de Carcassonne à Toulouse. Les pluies vont également continuer à affecter les départements du Languedoc-Roussilon et prendront cette nuit un caractère orageux. 100 à 200 mm sont attendus sur les massifs, à quoi s’ajouteront les orages, qui pourront donner 60 à 80 mm de plus. Fin des perturbations attendue pour mardi après-midi.

According to the weather service, the *Autan wind will strengthen, necessitating this particular alert. It will reach in the early part of the night 100-130 km/hr on the Montagne Noire (Tarn, SW Massive Central), and 100-110 km/hr on the plains of Carcassone to Toulouse. Rains will equally effect the Languedoc-Roussilon area and take on stormy characteristics tonight. 100 to 200 mm are expected on the massifs, and with storms can add another 60 to 80 mm. Tuesday afternoon should see the end of the disturbances.

*Le vent d’autan  is a wind that blows in the south/SW of France, coming from south/SE, affecting the Aquitane basin and SW of the massif Central. Principally Languedoc et Midi-Pyrénées is the region affected.

 

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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