The heavy rainfall that has flooded Germany’s Saarland has also affected the nearby French region of Moselle in Lorraine, which remains on red alert for flooding. On Saturday, the French weather service Metéo France reported “exceptional flooding” of the Saar tributary Nied and “severe flooding” on several rivers in the north-east of the region on the border with Germany. In the Bas-Rhin department around Strasbourg, the warning level is orange, the second-highest level. “The equivalent of more than a month’s rain has fallen in less than 24 hours,” the prefecture declared on Friday evening, sp…