“After the time of crisis management comes the essential time of in-depth analysis and feedback– asserts the executive board of the Corsican community. Specifically, wondering if?we could better anticipate the arrival of this storm of exceptional violence“For gusts measured at speeds of more than 200 km/h, the advice is particularly enabling”measuring buoys off Corsica“who can have”made it possible to detect the strength of the storm before it flared up on the coast“.
After putting Corsica on a yellow alert for thunderstorms on Wednesday, Météo-France changed the island to an orange alert just minutes before the storm hit the coast at around 8:30am on Thursday morning.
As of Thursday afternoon, the weather service had denied it had activated the heightened alert level early enough, admitting it was “surprised“with the situation”exceptional“but”difficult to predictwith its digital models.
In its text, the Executive Council of Corsica also inquires whether “At Météo-France, workforce reductions have reduced the quality of surveillance, especially at night.“.
On Thursday and Friday, crossing Corsica, in the storm-affected camps, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, promised that:as always“Civil security will order an investigation.
This investigation shouldto answer all these questions and its conclusions should be published as soon as possible“, the executive council of Corsica insisted.
“We will have to review our alarm and security systems“, in turn, Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday evening, in Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), in connection with the ceremony of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Var commune by the allied troops.
Just before the executive board’s press release, its president Gilles Simeone said on Twitter on Sunday that he had written to Mr. Darmanini.require all explanations to be provided, particularly on weather risk analysis procedures and alerting procedures“.
Source: Le Figaro
