The Minister of the Interior indicated this Tuesday that 3,200 firefighters will be mobilized in six departments to face storm Ciaran, expected Wednesday evening: the four Breton departments (Côtes-d’Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine, Finistère and Morbihan) as well as as the Manche and Loire-Atlantique.
He specified that the “modeling predicted a storm of the same level as that of 1999” with winds going “at least as fast or even faster”, waves “up to 10 meters” high, and dangers of “submersion “.
Orange vigilance
Météo-France has placed three Breton departments (Finistère, Morbihan and Côtes-d’Armor) on orange wind vigilance, and on orange rain flood vigilance for the first two, in anticipation of this “very strong autumn storm. » Ciaran will hit the entire northwest quarter of France with gusts of up to 170 km/h on the coasts.
Red vigilance, the highest level, should be triggered “in the coming hours”, Gérald Darmanin announced late in the afternoon without further details.
SNCF traffic interrupted
In anticipation of this storm, the SNCF, which hopes for a return to normal “from Friday November 3”, announced that it was interrupting all TER lines in the Brittany and Pays-de-la regions for Thursday. -Loire, Normandy and Centre-Val-de-Loire, as well as in Hauts-de-France. Only the Paris Bercy-Nevers line will run normally, specifies the SNCF.
For TGVs, the Paris-Rennes and Paris-Lille lines will be operated “without serving intermediate stations located outside high-speed lines”, indicates the SNCF in a press release. The TGVs will not go beyond Rennes, said a spokesperson for SNCF Bretagne.
Brest Bretagne airport will be closed from Wednesday 5 p.m. to Thursday 9:30 a.m., he announced in a press release.