The island was placed until 11 am, Thursday morning, in orange vigilance by Météo-France, which announces “violent storms with strong gusts of a tornado”.
Le Monde with AFP
One person died and another was seriously injured, Thursday, August 18 in the morning, when a tree fell on a bungalow in a Sagone campsite, Corsica-du-Sud, the firefighters announced at the ‘Agency France-Presse (AFP).
About twenty interventions were underway Thursday morning with numerous “roads crowded with branches” and “some salaries at sea of boaters”, notably in Capo Di Feno, on the outskirts of Ajaccio, said Jean-Jacques Peraldi , the commander of the fire and rescue service (SDIS) of Corse-du-Sud.
Some premises were also flooded but, according to Mr. Peraldi, “the bulk of the wind is passed” and the situation is “in the stabilization phase”. The phenomenon mainly affected the north of the department, he also explained.
A particularly organized line of strong thunderstorms will approach the West #corse in the coming minutes. De VI… https://t.co/wv2simoiku
an exceptional burst at 224 km/h
Corsica was placed until 11 am, Thursday morning, in orange alert by Météo-France , which announces” violent thunderstorms with strong gusts of a tornado, of low geographic magnitude but causing significant damage [on] its passage “.
“An exceptional burst at 224 kilometers an hour has just been measured at Marignana station (about thirty kilometers from Sagone) on an exposed part of the west coast [of the island]”, A Reported the Meteorological Institute on its Twitter account at 8:30 am A burst of 131 kilometers an hour was recorded in Ajaccio, and another 220 kilometers per hour in Marignana, he also details.
#corse an exceptional burst 224 km/h has just been measured at Marignana station on an exposed part of… https://t.co/f5ofhctl68
– vigimeteofrance (@vigimétéofrance)
Météo-France plans that these very strong thunderstorms, which can also occasionally hail, “evacuate north (from Corsica) at the end of the morning”.
In total, the two Corsican departments and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques are on orange vigilance Thunderstorms and rainfalls Thursday morning, according to the meteorological organization. In the Basque Country, “the cumulation of rain for the last twelve hours are often between 30 and 60 millimeters”, specifies Météo-France in its 8:30 am bulletin. “We will therefore have accumulated in twenty-four hours (between Wednesday Evening and Thursday evening) most often between 70 and 100 millimeters on the Basque Country, or even very locally 120 or 130 millimeters. “
The heavy rains on Wednesday evening in the Southeast did not make a victim or big damage, according to the fire of the firefighters Thursday morning.