The violent storms, accompanied by hailstones and heavy rain, which hit Ile-de-France on Wednesday evening subsided overnight, we learned from Météo-France. In fact, the orange “rain flood” alert has been lifted. None of the 19 departments placed under surveillance are now affected. But one victim is to be deplored.
A 57-year-old woman died in Courmelles, swept away in a mudslide which rushed into her house invaded by “1.50 m of water”, the Aisne prefecture said this Thursday morning. Her partner, who “managed to escape”, was injured “with bruising to the head”.
Flooded airports
Wednesday evening, torrential rains poured down on Paris. Roissy and Orly airports were forced to divert planes that were due to land on their runways. Images of flooding at Roissy terminal 2 are also circulating on X.
“The equivalent of two weeks of rain”
It fell locally “between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. the equivalent of two weeks of rain in the month of May to the north and east of Paris,” indicates the Météo Chaîne.
The Paris region is not left out. Burgundy and Hauts-de-France also suffered very violent storms until 2 a.m. An idea ? Nearly 23,000 flashes and lightning strikes were detected from 6 p.m. until the end of this stormy episode, according to the Keraunos observatoryspecifying that “Seine-et-Marne was the most impacted department with nearly 4,000 lightning strikes recorded”.
“The storms evacuated into the Channel, towards England. Some rain, now lighter, still persists a little in the departments bordering the Channel, but no longer justifying orange vigilance,” specifies Météo France in its latest bulletin published this Thursday at 3 a.m. Calvados nevertheless remains on orange “flood” alert due to significant rises in water expected in the Touques basin.