This Friday, July 7, Météo-France placed several departments on orange storm alert in the South-West, with heavy rains. On Saturday, the storms will hit the West before shifting towards the center and the north of France.
[Updated July 7, 2023 at 8:07 p.m.] Since this Friday, July 7, the high temperatures have returned to France, and with them their thunderstorms. Thus, Météo-France has placed ten departments on orange storm alert for Friday evening. Locally, hail and very strong gusts of wind are expected in these departments: Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Gers, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot-et-Garonne, Gironde , Dordogne, Tarn and Haute-Garonne.
Regarding the weather for Saturday July 8, the meteorological service indicated that, from the morning, stormy showers would develop “from Brittany to Pays de la Loire and Normandy” before sliding “towards the Center, the Paris Basin and Hauts-de-France” in the afternoon.
As for the temperatures, they should remain quite high for the day on Saturday. While thunderstorms along the English Channel are expected to cool the air, where 22 to 27 degrees are expected, in other areas it will be warm to very hot. Thus, it will be “from 27 to 31 degrees from the interior of Normandy to the Pays de Loire and Aquitaine, and from 30 to 35 degrees elsewhere, locally up to 36/37 degrees in the Rhone Valley, in Burgundy and in Alsace”, according to Météo-France.
