Overview
- Météo France maintains orange vigilance on Monday for five departments, with Aude under orange for floods and rain‑flooding, Pyrénées‑Orientales, Haute‑Corse and Corse‑du‑Sud for rain‑flooding, and Hérault for river flooding.
- The Aude prefect ordered evacuations for ground‑floor homes in Narbonne’s Maraussan and La Mayolle districts, activated FR‑Alert, opened shelters at the Parc des Sports and the Arena, and closed schools with school transport suspended.
- Emergency resources were prepositioned, including 420 firefighters with 40 nautical specialists, 127 gendarmes, 22 national police officers and 30 soldiers to support evacuations and interventions.
- Rivers remain closely monitored, with the Orb in Béziers peaking at 11.37 m on Sunday and surpassing the October 2018 reference level, while the Cesse and the Jaur are also on orange alert.
- Forecasters warn of easterly gusts near 80–100 km/h and waves of 5–6 m along the Languedoc coast, with cumulative rainfall totals potentially reaching 300–500 mm in the most exposed areas by Tuesday.