Orange alert for “Thunderstorms” were triggered for the day of Saturday June 29 in 31 departments, while a strong stormy episode will cross most of the country, according to the meteorological service. He also placed 14 departments on orange “thunderstorm” alert for Sunday in the Grand Est.
Saturday at 6 a.m., the departments of Tarn, Aveyron, Lot, Cantal, Allier and Ain went into orange “thunderstorm” alert for the afternoon of Saturday. They have thus joined the 25 departments which were already there: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Gironde, Landes, Deux-Sèvres, Vienne, and all the departments of Grand Est and Burgundy. Franche-Comté, reports Météo-France.
“The altitude depression at the origin of the stormy degradation is currently rising over Spain towards the Pyrenees”Météo-France said on Saturday morning. In Aquitaine, “frequent storms are present” accompanied by a “strong electrical activity, locally heavy rain intensities sometimes 20 to 30 mm/h” and of “hail in places”.
Locally stormy showers
From the Massif Central to the northeast, the stormy episode has not yet begun. 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 but more isolated showers.
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 of wind.
This area of thunderstorms will move towards Center-Val-de-Loire, eastern Ile-de-France and Burgundy-Franche-Comté in the late afternoon, reaching the Grand Est in the evening. , with still heavy rains, violent gusts of wind and hail, particularly in the northeast of the country where these storms will be the most violent. Only the regions from Brittany to Nord-Pas-de-Calais, as well as Corsica, will stay away from these bad weather, and will maintain calmer but cloudy weather. The southeast wind will blow quite strongly until the beginning of the afternoon from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur to the Massif Central.
