MAP. Weather: violent storms, heavy rainfall and risk of hail, Aveyron on orange alert this Saturday

He had rubbed shoulders several times yellow vigilance storms in recent weeks: Aveyron will experience the higher level, this Saturday, June 29, 2024. The department is placed in orange alert by Météo France.

From 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

There will first be a time of yellow alert, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. this Saturday, before the upper level is activated. According to the Météo France bulletin, the orange alert for thunderstorms will be present from 12 noon to 6 p.m. in Aveyron, during this last Saturday of the month. The yellow level will then return, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

What forecasts?

The atmosphere will therefore go bad during the afternoon of June 29, when the entire Aveyron will be affected by disturbed weather. The Météo France forecast map is quite explicit, talking about storms for the west of the department, risk of thunderstorms for Rodez, Entraygues or Millau, and stormy showers in Laguiole, Salles-Curan, Saint-Affrique and Nant:

For the evening, Météo France forecasts a still cloudy sky, with thunderstorms in Nant and stormy showers over a large eastern half of the Aveyron territory, in Laguiole, Sévérac, Millau but also Saint-Affrique, Salles-Curan and Entraygues. Showers are expected in the rest of the department.

A message from the prefecture

State services in Aveyron have called for caution, speaking of “violent thunderstorms likely to locally cause more or less significant damage” and evoking “violent phenomena” which could be observed under these storms.

“We are particularly expecting heavy rainy intensities from 20 to 30 mm/h, which can result in accumulations locally exceeding 50 mm during the episode. A few hail small to medium sized storms are also likely, as well as wind gusts that could locally exceed 80km/h,” warns the prefecture.