Météo France has placed the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan on orange alert for this Saturday, August 31.
The end of a month of August that has not always kept all its promises from a climatic point of view. For this last weekend of the month before the start of the school year, Météo France announced that 53 departments were on yellow alert for risk of storms, Saturday August 31. Seven of them were finally placed on orange alert. These are the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, Gironde, Charente-Maritime, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan.
All others remain on yellow alert with the exception of Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Mayenne, Sarthe and Maine-et-Loire in the West, but also Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Vosges, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort in the Grand-Est. The entire Côte-d’Azur is spared, like a large part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Vigilance maintained in five departments on Sunday
In terms of temperatures, only the Rhône and the Alpes-Maritimes are on yellow heatwave alert, with up to 33°C in Lyon and 30°C in Nice on Saturday afternoon. It will also be hot in Ajaccio, where 32°C are expected, as well as in Vichy. Everywhere else, the temperature should not exceed 30°C, according to Météo France forecasts.
On Sunday, September 1st, the country will be split in two regarding storm warnings, with the entire western half, from Calvados to the Pyrénées-Orientales, on yellow alert. With the exception of Morbihan, Loire Atlantique, Vendée, Charente-Maritime and Gironde on orange alert. The northern tip of the country is affected, as is the southeastern part of the country and Corsica. The Rhône and the Alpes-Maritimes will remain on yellow heatwave alert.