Overview
- Météo-France at 06:00 Tuesday kept Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan and Finistère on orange for river floods, lifting the orange rain–inundation alert for Finistère and Morbihan.
- Vigicrues is closely monitoring the Odet, Laïta, Blavet and Oust, cautioning that rainfall linked to the depression “Chandra” could send levels back up after Sunday’s brief lull.
- Authorities installed about 250 meters of anti-flood barriers in Redon with 24 civil security personnel, and mobilized roughly 550 Ille-et-Vilaine firefighters using boats, a hovercraft and drones.
- Flood impacts continue in southern Brittany, with submerged premises and road closures from Quimperlé to Malestroit, where local crisis teams have been active for days.
- Rainfall has set January records in parts of the region—about 310 mm in Quimper and over 500 mm since December in central Finistère—leaving soils saturated, with officials noting roughly a 40-hour upstream-to-Redon lag for potential peaks later this week.