"Lothar crossed all of France, deepening with small, highly concentrated eddies that had developed from land. "It's not the same configuration as in 1999," commented meteorologist and climatologist Robert Vautard, director of the Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace. Winds could reach 90 km/h or even 100 km/h in the Paris region, compared with over 170 km/h during Lothar. They will reach 100 km/h to 110 km/h in Pays de la Loire and from Haute-Normandie to the west of Hauts-de-France. Inland, gusts could reach between 130 km/h and 140 km/h over Brittany and the Cotentin region. Peak gusts of between 150 km/h and 170 km/h are feared along the Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor and Manche coasts on Wednesday night, whereas the most violent winds came dangerously close to 180 km/h in 1999. After that, the winds are expected to be less violent and to diminish as the weather depression moves inland. According to the organization's forecasts, Storm Ciaran should be confined to the north-western quarter of France, whereas Lothar and Martin had crossed the whole country, with gusts above 100 km/h over almost the entire territory. Lauriane Batté, a climatologist at the French meteorological institute, called it a "major storm," but "not on the same scale" as those of 1999 in terms of intensity, severity and, above all, the spread of areas affected. With the arrival of Ciaran, Météo-France is anticipating a "very powerful autumn storm." As of Wednesday night, the départements of Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor and Manche have been placed on red alert, and 15 départements in the north-east, from Vendée to Nord, on orange alert for violent winds. On December 26 and 27, storms Lothar and Martin ravaged France, devastating forests and killing 92 people. The term, used by forecasters in recent days, raises the specter of the "storms of the century" of 1999, the country's deadliest. Gusts of up to 170 km/h on the Brittany and Normandy coasts, waves of up to 10 meters on the Atlantic coast and heavy rain: Storm Ciaran looks set to be a "weather bomb" when it hits the north-western quarter of France on Wednesday and Thursday. Subscribers only Street flooded after heavy rain in Quimper (Finistère), October 29, 2023. The storm expected on November 1 and 2 could cause gusts of up to 170 km/h along the western Brittany coast.īy Stéphane Mandard Published on November 1, 2023, at 11:15 am (Paris), updated on November 1, 2023, at 9:26 pm Storm Ciaran: France braces for 'weather bomb' in northwest
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