The weather on Sunday will be marked by thunderstorms which could give rise to heavy rain in the south of the country where seven departments are on orange rain-flood and/or thunderstorm alert, according to Météo-France.
The unstable rainfall episode observed since the day before continues in the South-West. The orange thunderstorm alert was lifted at 6 a.m. in the Landes, which however remains on orange rain-flood alert. Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées have returned to yellow.
In the south-eastern quarter, locally violent thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon. Ardèche, Gard, Vaucluse, Drôme and Isère are on orange thunderstorm and rain-flood alert. Haute-Loire on orange alert for thunderstorms only.
The weather will be calm in the rest of the country
More scattered thunderstorms will also break out in the afternoon from Burgundy to the Jura and southern Alsace.
The coast of Paca and Corsica will be spared from storms with moderate wind blowing up to 60 to 70 km/h for the tramontane and a southerly wind 40 to 50 km/h at peak going towards the Côte d’Azur .
Finally, north of a Biarritz-Strasbourg line, the weather will remain calm and sunny overall. The northerly wind will help keep temperatures below 25 degrees, particularly in the South-West which will lose almost ten degrees compared to the day before.
In the south-eastern quarter we will find maximums between 25 and 28 degrees, up to 29 in Southern Corsica. The minimums will range from 8 to 14 degrees in the northern half and from 15 to 18 in the south, 18 to 20 in the Mediterranean.
