This Wednesday, Météo-France placed 14 departments on orange alert for storms.
Île-de-France of France and several neighboring departments are particularly concerned.
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Storms, exceptional floods, floods… France faces a series of bad weather
This Wednesday, May 1, Météo-France places 14 departments on orange alert for storms. These are all the departments of Ile-de-France (Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val de Marne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val d’Oise, Seine et MarneL’EssonneTHE Yvelines), of the’Aisneof the’Oise and some Sum.
In these departments “the storms are expected to be virulent with high intensities of precipitation, hail, squalls” as well as a “marked electrical activity”indicated the meteorological agency in its latest bulletin published at 6:00 a.m.
For the day of Thursday, only 4 departments remain placed on orange vigilance: the SumL’Aisne, Oise and the Marl.
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The 14 departments affected by the alert this Wednesday:
Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val de Marne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val d’Oise, Seine et Marne, L’Essonne, THE Yvelines, L’AisneL’Oisethere Sum.
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Hello everyone in this live broadcast dedicated to Météo-France’s orange vigilance which concerns 14 departments, including those of Île-de-France.
This Wednesday, in the border Alps, a return from the east will bring sustained and regular precipitation with a rain-snow limit around 2200 m. It will rain more lightly on the Atlantic coast, except the Breton tip which will find variable skies. Elsewhere the sky will be very cloudy in general, brighter in the northeast.
In the afternoon, in the west, the rains will slowly sink into the interior of the country, in the Pays de la Loire, Poitou and the South-West. To the west of the Pyrenees, the rain-snow limit will drop from 1600 to 1100 m, to the east from 1900 to 1500 m. The rains will persist from Normandy to the Center, Massif Central, Languedoc and PACA, they will also reach the Rhône-Alpes.
In the North and North-East, the weather will deteriorate except for Alsace which will maintain sunny weather. The sky will become cloudy and storms will break out in the late afternoon and evening in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. They will sometimes be violent with a risk of hail and strong gusts of wind, up to 80 km/h. These storms will shift in the evening to Champagne-Ardennes, Ile-de-France then Hauts-de-France during the night.
Minimum temperatures will range from 8 to 12 degrees, locally 6 to 7 in Brittany, 11 to 14 near the Mediterranean. The maximums will range from 13 to 16 degrees in the southwest half of the country, from 14 to 20 degrees from the southeast to the north, from 20 to 25 in the northeast with peaks at 26 or 27 in Alsace.
