Thunderstorms: Disappeared, floods … The impressive images of the bad weather that struck the south of France and the north of Spain

Météo France was not mistaken. Therefore, by placing the departments of Aude and the Pyrénées-Orientales on orange vigilance this Saturday, July 12. Moreover, The south of France – just like northern Spain – was struck by impressive thunderstorms and dantesque rains, causing floods. For example, This Sunday again, submerged roads are always blocked.

In places, important accumulation of rain in rain have been recorded: this is the case in Perthus (Pyrénées-Orientales), where 97.1 millimeters of rain fell in a very short time. Still in the department. in Ille-sur-Têt, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, it fell up to 80 millimeters of rain in less than an hour. More than 5,500 lightnings were recorded in an hour, mainly concentrated in this area.

In Bessan, near Béziers (Hérault) thunderstorms: disappeared, floods … impressive where 73.8 millimeters of rain fell in the space of only a few hours. This is a accumulation of precipitation six times higher than it normally falls for the whole month of July. in this region. These bad weather caused major floods on the spot.

In the Tarn department, the heavy rains led to the flood of a hotel in Garrevacques, a few kilometers from Revel, mobilizing about fifteen firefighters to evacuate customers. In Ariège, the firefighters were forced to carry out around twenty interventions in total. Lightning it fell on a car stationed in Montjoie-en-Couserans, causing a fire. Luckily, the vehicle was not busy.

Thunderstorms: disappeared, floods … impressive

Two missing in Spain

It was in Catalonia that the damage was the most important. The region was placed in red vigilance by the authorities. Two thunderstorms: disappeared, floods … impressive people are still disappeared today in the Cubelles sector, a town of 17,000 inhabitants located about fifty kilometers from Barcelona. “According to initial information. they were swept away by the flood of the Foix”, a river which flows into the Mediterranean, explain the firefighters in a message broadcast on the social network X.

Many tourists, who came to visit the region during this summer period, found themselves trapped. In Barcelona, bad weather caused serious floods in a hospital. The establishment had to refuse patients after undergoing an electrical failure.

The RENFE railway company had to cut the traffic of trains throughout the Catalonia region. In the town of Suria, the Cardener river entered flood, taking three vehicles according to local journalists.

Since the weather has thunderstorms: disappeared, floods … impressive gradually slipped to the east: it is now Corsica that is threatened. The two departments of the beauty island were placed in orange alert due to the risk of rain and thunderstorms.