After having visited, Thursday, the most affected places in Corsica by deadly storms, the Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville, estimated that it was necessary to “prevent better protecting the population”.
Le Monde with AFP
A week after the murderous winds that hit Corsica, the government announced, Thursday, August 25, the deployment of five meteorological buoys to better plan storms.
“We have experienced an exceptional episode of rare violence, but that forces us to put ways to be able to better prevent,” the Secretary of State for the Secretary of State for the France-Presse at the Agency The sea, Hervé Berville.
After having placed Corsica yellow alert to thunderstorms on August 17, Météo-France had changed the island in orange alert only a few minutes before the gusts come to strike the coast the next day around 8:30 am very brutal and very brutal and Suddenly, the storm had done in just a few hours enormous damage and caused the death of five people.
Visit the island on Thursday, after visiting the places most affected by these deadly thunderstorms like Girolata (Corse-du-Sud) and Calvi (Haute-Corse), Mr. Berville said that ‘It was necessary to “adapt to the consequences of climate change, better to better protect the population”.
buoys at sea in mid-2023
The Council of Ministers had acted, on Wednesday, the upcoming acquisition of five meteorological buoys to “strengthen our anticipation capacities”. These buoys will be at sea in mid-2023, said the Secretary of State, explaining that it took “time to build them”. The buoys will be installed, in consultation with scientists and actors of the sea, “neither too close nor too far from the Corsican coasts”.