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Stalled Thunderstorm Drenches Antibes With Month’s Rain in Hours as Hail Blankets Streets

Officials report conditions normalizing with no major damage or injuries.

Overview

  • Up to 86 mm of rain fell in roughly six hours over Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, with localized radar estimates near 130 mm.
  • Hail fell continuously for about 1 hour 20 minutes, leaving thick ice accumulations on some streets.
  • Street flooding reached about 60 cm in the Autrichiens sector and 40 cm at Val Claret, with temporary outages to street lighting and signals and some basement inundations.
  • Firefighters conducted around ten interventions and put a couple to safety, and authorities reported no casualties or major damage on public property.
  • The Alpes-Maritimes remains under yellow alert for further thunderstorms along the PACA coast.