This Tuesday At 12, the wind blows in a storm in Corsica, up to 181 km/h at Sponde (2B) and 159 km/h at Île Rousse (2B). In the center of the island, the total rainfall reaches 111 mm in Vivario (2B), which corresponds to 1 month of precipitation. © The Weather Channel In the south of Aquitaine, after the passage of storm Fien which caused winds of 137 km/h in Ciboure (64) and 94 km/h in Pau (64) and Tarbes...
Corsica was placed on Monday in orange wind alert by Météo-France from Monday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. for gusts which could exceed 120 km / h."In Corsica, very strong gusts of wind will occur on Monday evening in the mountains and on the eastern plain" with gusts of up to "120 to 140 km / h", specifies the meteorological organization which also placed the island in yellow alert waves-submergence and avalanche.Gusts at 160 km/hThe Haute-Corse prefecture had indicated in...
A dozen people were arrested this Monday morning in Corsica as part of an anti-terrorism case. The operation, led by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate and the judicial police took place mainly in Haute-Corse but also in the Far South. The old and the new executive of Corsica Libera are concerned by these arrests. Activists of the movement also prevented for about an hour the transfer to the police station of one of the people arrested in the Saint-Antoine district, in Bastia,...
A black and white Torda penguin was seen on Monday by AFP in Ajaccio, along the beach of St François, in the city center, a presence so close to the coast that questions the experts."For a week and a half, we have been notified of four individuals, two alive and two dead, in Corsica, the population is very present this year," Amandine Pericard, head of the wildlife care center, told AFP. U Pettirossu, the only center of this type in...
Plan a wax. This Monday, the weather will be particularly bad on the French Atlantic coast. From Brittany to the Pyrenees, Météo-France has placed many departments on yellow alert for high winds and thunderstorms. The territories bordering the coast are also placed in wave-submersion vigilance. In total, 22 departments are on alert this Monday, including for risks of avalanche and storm in Corsica. State of play.Strong winds and large swellsWe will not take the boat out this Monday. From the...
Did you miss the news this early morning? We've put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.The G20 opened on Tuesday with a major absentee: Vladimir Putin. The master of the Kremlin has indeed preferred to send his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Bali. And even before the start of the summit, the pressure mounted on Moscow. Xi Jinping thus met Joe Biden on Monday and Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday. The Chinese president and his American counterpart...
The island is known for wild nature, clear water and headstrong people - a portrait in pictures. source site
Nineteen days that the Ocean Viking, the humanitarian ship of SOS Méditerranée, has been wandering with more than 200 survivors on board. Faced with the "silence" of the Italian authorities, who, under the impetus of their new government, refuse to welcome the humanitarian ship as they have done so far, the association for the rescue of migrants at sea turns to France, in a call aired Tuesday.A call to which Benoît Payan responded, as did Gilles Simeoni, the president of...
After the intrusion Thursday morning into its hemicycle of around fifty activists defending so-called political prisoners, the Assembly of Corsica suspended its session for ten hours before voting on a "resolution" calling on the State to negotiate on the situation of these inmates.The Corsican elected officials began a cycle of meetings with the State in July on the future of the island, including institutional, following a proposal by the Minister of the Interior Gérard Darmanin, after the fatal attack in...
From bay to bay, uphill and downhill: In Corsica, a new long-distance cycle path runs from north to south across the entire island. It is especially wonderful in the off-season. source site
