The violent thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones and heavy rain which hit Île-de-France on Wednesday evening eased overnight. Météo-France has lifted the orange “thunderstorms” and “rain-flood” alert in all the departments concerned.
“ The storms evacuated into the Channel, towards England. Some rain, now lighter, still persists a little in the departments bordering the Channel, but no longer warrants orange vigilance. “, indicated the meteorological agency in its bulletin published Thursday at 3:18 a.m.
Calvados nevertheless remains on orange “flood” alert due to significant rises in water expected in the Touques basin.
Diverted flights at Roissy and Orly
According to the Flightradar website, around ten planes which were due to land at Roissy airport were diverted. Flights to Orly were also redirected to other airports.
The dashboard of the Eurocontrol organization indicated that the two Paris airports were closed to arrivals at 10:52 p.m. Images of flooding in terminal 2 of Roissy airport are also circulating on X.
Further precipitation Thursday
It fell locally “ between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. the equivalent of two weeks of rain in the month of May to the north and east of Paris “, according to the weather Channel.
The weather is expected to be disrupted again on Thursday, with further precipitation, according to Météo-France. Over a large part of Normandy, Ile-de-France, Hauts-de-France to the Grand-Est, the sky will remain cloudy all day, accompanied by temporary rain or showers. These showers will locally mix with thunderstorms near the Belgian and German borders.
From the south of Burgundy-Franche-Comté to Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern Languedoc, the PACA region and Corsica, it will rain more sustainably.
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