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IN PICTURES: See how the deluge has left parts of France’s Mediterranean coast submerged

Authorities in the south of France have told people to stay at home when possible, as torrential rain causes severe flooding in the region. These are some of the most stunning images captured by local residents.

Published: 4 October 2021 13:18 CEST
A woman drivers her car in a flooded road in the Gard department on September 14th.
A woman drivers her car in a flooded road in the Gard department on September 14th. Illustration photo: Sylvain THOMAS / AFP.

France’s weather agency, Météo France, issued a weather warning for six départements on Monday, with Bouches-du-Rhône on red alert for heavy rain and flooding.

The Vaucluse, Var, Alpes-Maritimes, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and Haute-Corse départements were on orange alert from Monday morning, with the disruption set to last until 9pm.

The new weather alert comes after torrential rain hit the region over the weekend, and drivers have been capturing the impressive scenes on camera.

Images sent into BFM and La Provence by Marseille residents show cars submerged by water.The following videos published by local newspaper La Provence show the extent of flooding in Marseille on Monday morning.

Even the city’s famous Vieux-Port neighbourhood was flooded on Monday.

The video below shows water flooding through the streets of coastal town Cassis, not far from Marseille.

In Nîmes in the Gard département, roads were flooded on Sunday evening, with one car submerged up to its roof in water.

Residents were being asked to stay at home, not to evacuate without instruction from the authorities, and not to use their basements.

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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