Video The city of Nîmes, in the Gard, suffered strong bad weather, on the night of September 6 to 7. Météo-France placed the department in red vigilance for a few hours before going back to orange.
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After an afternoon of September 6 spent in heavy rains in Hérault, it was the Gard, at nightfall, which suffered violent bad weather. Torrential rains have succeeded thunderous thunderstorms all over the Nîmes agglomeration.
The red alert was decreed shortly after 2 am by Météo-France . She could be lifted at 6 am, after returning from calm. “The Nîmes agglomeration was affected by a violent thunderstorm in the night, it fell up to 135 millimeters of rain,” a spokesperson for the Gard firefighters told the France-Presse. p>
Thursday, September 7, thirteen departments remained in orange vigilance due to the stormy covers expected in the afternoon.