Rain, floods and storms: two departments on orange alert this Tuesday, around sixty still in yellow

Rain and storms persist across almost all of France, this Tuesday, May 21, 2024. In its 6 a.m. bulletin, Météo France thus maintains two departments (the Charente Maritime and the Gironde) on orange alert for “rain-flood”.

67 departments are also on yellow alert, mainly for the risk of thunderstorms, but also rain-flooding and floods.

A rainy and locally stormy area from the Alps to the Grand Est

An episode of heavy rain is in progress until mid-morning on Tuesday in the north of Gironde and the south of Charente-Maritime, specifies the weather organization, which forecasts cumulative precipitation of around 30 at 40 millimeters on the episode, locally 50 to 60 mm.

This Tuesday morning, a very rainy and locally stormy area will extend from the Alps to the Grand Est, and will extend to the north of Hauts-de-France. And these regular rains will still drag on part of the afternoon from Nord-Pas-de-Calais to the north of Lorraine and Alsace, Météo France anticipates.

The Mediterranean rim spared

Only the south-east, the plains of Languedoc up to Provence, the Côte d’Azur and Corsica, will benefit from very sunny weather overall, because the rest of the country, like the previous days, will remain exposed in unstable weather with showers, and sometimes thunderstorms.

The temperatures ? The maximums will rise to 22, or even 26°C near the Mediterranean17 to 21°C in the rest of the country with locally 15/16°C on the Channel coasts and Limousin.

Bad weather that lasts

This bad weather, which lasts, is caused by a cold drop positioned in the heart of France, explained this Monday on -.fr meteorologists Yann Amice and Guillaume Séchet.

They also warned about further rain expected over the next few hours in Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle, already placed on red alert for flooding in recent days.

How long will this bad weather last? The instability will continue, according to forecasters, until the end of the week, before, according to weather models, an upgrade for the weekend of May 25 and 26, 2024.

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