Through Pierre Chemel
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Lcancellation of the music festival 2021 following a prefectural weather alert had left a bitter taste with Brondillant and its mayor Jérémie Bréaud. Especially since it had not finally fallen a drop of rain. The neighboring town of Décines-Charpieu had maintained its festivities on the advice of… Romain Weber, founder and meteorologist at Lyon Météo.
This is undoubtedly one of the reasons which led the city of Bron to sign an agreement with the brilliant forecaster on Friday, November 5, 2021.
More detailed forecasts
« It is a real utility for the City, on the one hand, in terms of organizing events. The City will know precisely whether it must maintain them, postpone them by one hour for example or cancel them, for a good reason that the inhabitants can check for themselves, because Romain Weber’s forecasts are fine and precise, explains Jérémie Bréaud. . He acts as an expert and adviser. This will avoid canceling for nothing, like our last music party, canceled as the festivities started at 6 p.m. The rain came around 10 p.m. Cancellations have a cost for the City, the food stands do not sell anything, it is a loss of earnings for the associations and the traders, and this is without counting the disappointment of the inhabitants. If we can avoid! “
Watering savings
The second issue is that of the watering carried out by the green spaces service. The forecast of the meteorologist will allow watering “just” (Fort de Bron, Bois des Essarts, lawns, plants in containers, roundabouts, etc.) and to make financial and environmental savings.
“It is all the more important that the water table must be restored to its health following the last two years of heat wave, adds the mayor of Bron. Racecourses including that of Parilly, in agreement with Romain Weber, have thus been able to save 15,000 m3 of water in 2020! “
SMS alerts
Finally, the City will be in a position to better inform the Brondiants and the people who subscribe to its SMS alerts on, in particular, snow and ice alerts and severe weather phenomena.
Lyon Météo will provide expert six-day daily forecasts for the municipality and send alerts to agents and elected officials in order to anticipate risks. “The goal is to provide precise alerts at the scale of the municipality,” explains Romain Weber. Weather vigilances today are departmental, it is not precise enough because the Rhône department has different climates“. In addition, they are sometimes sent too late.
Alongside the town of Mions, Écully and Décines-Charpieu, the town of Bron is the fourth town in the Metropolis to call on the services of Lyon Météo, also a partner of news Lyon for the weather forecast for the week. end.
The figures for watering green spaces in Bron
Some figures collected from the services of the Green Spaces of Bron for watering in terms of the volume of water consumed and the cost for the City:
– 2017: 31,700m3 of water or 25,000 euros
– 2018: 30,400 m3 of water or 27,300 euros
– 2019: 23,700 m3 of water or 18,500 euros
– 2020: 22,100 m3 of water, i.e. 18,000 euros
We note that the 2019 and 2020 consumption is very low compared to previous years, due to the drought and watering restrictions.
The irrigated surface would be approximately 10 hectares.
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