This Saturday, three quarters of the country will be affected by thunderstorms, with the exception of the northwest, according to Météo-France. Landes, Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantique have been placed on orange thunderstorm and rain-flood alert.
The weather on Saturday is marked by stormy rains over three quarters of the country, except the northwest, according to Météo-France, which placed four departments on orange alert for thunderstorms and rain-flooding, in its mid-term bulletin. -daytime. The departments concerned are Landes, Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques, said the meteorological service, specifying that hail is also expected.
South of a Strasbourg-La Rochelle line, the weather is heavy and temporarily stormy. From the morning, under a chaotic sky, sometimes stormy showers circulated from the north of Aquitaine to Franche-Comté and Rhône-Alpes, and more locally in PACA. In the afternoon, stormy showers will recede towards the Southern Alps, and dry weather will return to the Mediterranean rim.
Hail and heavy rain locally
On the other hand, stormy activity will increase in the Pyrenees with some overflows into the plains south of the Garonne, as well as from Limousin to the north of Rhône-Alpes, to Franche-Comté and to the south of Alsace. Hail and heavy rain will be possible locally under these storms. In the evening and during the following night, while conditions calm down in the Center-East, sustained and lasting stormy rains will invade the south of Aquitaine and the west of Midi-Pyrénées, sometimes causing significant accumulations in particular. in departments placed on orange vigilance.
North of a Strasbourg-La Rochelle line, the weather is calmer and drier. However, the clouds are more numerous, near the Channel in the morning, then from Brittany to the Belgian border in the afternoon. Further south, the sun is predominant. The Autan wind picks up and blows up to 40/50 km/h in its area. Near the English Channel, the west wind blows up to 50 km/h.
Minimum temperatures are between 7 and 10 degrees from Brittany to the Benelux, with locally 4 or 5 from Picardy to Lorraine. Elsewhere, they range from 10 to 16 degrees, locally 18 to 20 in the South-West and on the Mediterranean coasts. The maximums reach 17 to 21 degrees in the North-West, 23 to 27 from the Charentes to the Rhine and Franche-Comté, 26 to 30 in the South, with locally 31/33 in Provence and sometimes up to 34/35 in South Corsica.
