Bad weather on Meteo France. A depression settled, for several years, on the center berruyer, rue Charles-Durand. And no anticyclone will make the sun shine above this institution. Muriel Gavoret, the interregional director of Météo France Ouest calls this “a pooling of forces”. As part of the “Public Action 2022” plan, local meteorological centers are destined to disappear in favor of regional centers which will centralize forecasts. The center of Bourges and that of Tours, in Indre-et-Loire, are eventually to be merged into the center of Rennes, in Ille-et-Vilaine.
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No departmental center will therefore be maintained. That of Bourges empties quietly until the departure of the last consultant meteorologist (there are still five of them) to work on site. Little by little, each departure will be replaced but not in Bourges: in the center of Rennes.
Gradual departures
No need to maintain a human presence when the tools are advanced enough to do without it. “This change has now been underway for thirteen years,” explains the interregional director. And it continues, slowly but surely. The agents who remain in Bourges could, but nothing has yet been decided, change site, which has necessarily become too large.
If, in the long term, the posts of the Berruyer meteorologists migrate to form a large Rennes team, there will only remain, in Bourges, only a maintenance team, responsible for the monitoring, maintenance and repair of the many sensors and other tools scattered throughout the territory and used to forecast the weather.
In 2020, Météo France’s budget was 362.3 million euros.
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In the new territorial scheme of Météo France, Bourges will be one of the five maintenance centers of the greater western region with Caen, Brest, Nantes and Rennes, and the only one in the Center-Val de Loire region. This reorganization of the meteorological institution takes place with a view to “ensuring the proper expenditure of public funds”.
Météo France is a public state institution of an administrative nature. This establishment is placed under the supervision of the minister in charge of transport. In 2020, its budget was 362.3 million euros, almost half supplied by the French State but also aeronautical fees, the subsidy for the contribution to the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
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The Rennes interregional center covers the Centre-Val de Loire, Pays de la Loire, Brittany and Normandy regions. There will be two aeronautical attachment centers (for forecasts) in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) and Rennes. And finally, the marine and off-shore center in Brest (Finistère).
Rémy Beurion
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