31 departments are on orange alert for “storms” this Saturday, June 29. The meteorological services have also placed 14 departments in the Grand-Est on orange alert for Sunday.
An orange “thunderstorms” alert has been triggered for the day of Saturday June 29 in 31 departments, while a strong stormy episode will cross most of the country, indicates Météo France.
The weather services have also placed 14 departments in the Grand Est on orange “storm” alert for Sunday. The departments affected by the alert this Saturday are: Tarn, Aveyron, Lot, Cantal, Allier, Ain, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Gironde, Landes, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, and all departments in the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Violent gusts and hail
“The high-altitude depression at the origin of the stormy deterioration is currently moving up over Spain towards the Pyrenees,” explained Météo France. In the morning, these storms will extend to the Centre-Val de Loire, while from the Pays de Loire to the Ile-de-France, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, the cloudy passages could give locally stormy showers, but more isolated.
Similarly, from Occitanie to Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the sky will be very overcast and some showers will be possible from the morning. But at the same time, a more marked stormy deterioration will approach the Pyrenees, and will quickly extend towards the Massif Central. In the afternoon, from the east of the Pyrenees to Limousin, then to Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, the storms will become strong and will multiply, giving high intensities of rain, sometimes hail and powerful gusts. This area of storms will head towards the Centre-Val de Loire, the east of the Ile-de-France and Bourgogne Franche-Comté at the end of the afternoon, to reach the Grand-Est in the evening, with continued heavy rain, violent gusts and hail, particularly in the north-east of the country where these storms will be the most violent.
Some regions spared
Only the regions from Brittany to Nord-Pas-de-Calais, as well as Corsica, will remain away from this bad weather, and will keep a calmer, but cloudy, weather. The south-easterly wind will blow quite strongly until the beginning of the afternoon from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur to the Massif Central.
Morning temperatures will be between 8 and 13 degrees from Brittany to Belgium, from 15 to 20 degrees elsewhere, up to 21 to 22 degrees in Corsica. In the afternoon, it will be 18 to 23 degrees near the Channel and the Atlantic, 23 to 28 degrees elsewhere, but up to 27 to 32 degrees from the Grand-Est to Berry, Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes -Côte d’Azur, and in Corsica, locally 34 in the Alsace plain and on the Isle of Beauty.
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With AFP
