Storms in Lorraine: “remarkable and locally violent phenomena”, here is what awaits us

Hail, heavy rain, strong winds… The Lorraine is placed on orange thunderstorm alert this Saturday June 29, 2024.

While the IAM and MC Solaar concert was canceled as a security measure in Nancy, the Moselle prefecture announces “phenomena qualified as “ remarkable ” Who only meet every two or three years« .

Lorraine News suggests that you take stock of the situation with Florian Pasiecznikfounder of the site Lor’ Weather.

Very few areas will escape storms in Lorraine

” Of the localized storm departures could break out in the afternoon with hailstorms,” Mr. Pasiecznik begins.

The deterioration should occur between 6pm and 8pm across the whole of Lorraine. We can expect intense thunderstorms that could continue until midnight. Very few areas will escape them.

Heavy rain, hail, strong winds, runoff…

Besides a high electrical activitythe founder of Météo Lor’ speaks of gusts generally between 80 and 100 km/h, but which could go up to 110 km/h locally. ” They will be sudden. “It risks damaging trees and objects that may have been left outside,” he warns.

We should also expect heavy rains. “In less than an hour, it could fallequivalent of three weeks of precipitation. Locally, these heavy rains could cause heavy runoffor even floods“. Not to mention the hailstones, which could exceed five centimetres in diameter in some places.

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