Eleven departments from Gard to Jura are still placed on orange rain-flood vigilance by Météo-France this Tuesday. The active disturbance, coupled with a Cévennes episode, generates heavy, lasting precipitation. However, the stormy character is easing but still remains strong, particularly in the Cévennes this morning.
The departments on orange alert: Loire, Rhône, Ain, Isère, Saône-et-Loire, Jura, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Lozère, Ardèche and Gard.
Vigilance in Saône-et-Loire ends at 10 a.m. (instead of 3 p.m.), in Jura and in the Alpes Maritimes at 2 p.m. (instead of 3 p.m.).
Very disturbed conditions in the morning
In the morning, from Languedoc and Pacaa to Rhône-Alpes and Franche-Comté as well as Corsica, conditions are still very disturbed with widespread and often heavy rain, sometimes accompanied by strong thunderstorms and giving significant accumulations. . In addition, the southeast wind blows quite strongly, reaching 60 to 80 km/h in gusts, locally 90 km/h.
In Lorraine and Alsace, the weather is rainy there too in the morning, but more lightly.
In the afternoon, while Languedoc and the west of Rhône-Alpes regained beautiful clearings, from Alsace to the east of Paca the rains continued before gradually moving away across the borders. from the east. On Corsica, on the other hand, sometimes marked showers and thunderstorms are still possible until the end of the afternoon or evening, and the south to southwest wind remains quite strong with gusts up to 80 to 100 km/ h on the relief.
More variable weather in the rest of the country
In the rest of the country the weather becomes more variable again, with occasional clear spells, particularly in the southwest. On the other hand, from Brittany to the north of New Aquitaine the sky is cloudier and showers are frequent from the morning. In the afternoon, these showers sometimes become stormy and extend to Normandy and Center-Val-de-Loire, or even Île-de-France in the evening. The southwest wind is strengthening over the northwest quarter of the country with gusts of up to 60 to 70 km/h near the coasts, 50 to 60 km/h inland.
Minimum temperatures range from 11 to 15 degrees in general, locally 16 to 18 near the Mediterranean. The decreasing maximums in the east range from 16 to 20 degrees in the northern half, from 18 to 23 degrees in the south, locally 24/25 in Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon or Corsica.