Some have been locally violent, as in the Gironde or in the Essonne. Météo-France has placed this Wednesday, the 47 departments in vigilance orange storms.
Sigh of relief for many. After days and nights of difficult with the episode heatwave, the first storms erupted on Tuesday, including on the paris region. They mark the last days of this heat wave. But they can also be locally violent, as in the Gironde or in the Essonne for example. At Longjumeau, the city hall and the main streets of the city centre had to be closed after a storm and heavy rainfall” as of late Tuesday afternoon.
The force of the Essonne department has reported in a message on Twitter, “falling objects”, including several departmental roads. It was also clarified that some of the streets of Villejust and Dourdan were flooded. The A6 has also been flooded on Tuesday to 17 hours the height of Savigny-sur-Orge, according to the fire department to BFM Paris.
A tree fell on an overhead wire in Fontaine-Michalon has also disrupted the traffic on the RER B, said Tuesday the RATP.
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Heavy showers and wind gusts on the side of Bordeaux. Weather Pyrenees urged caution. The images speak for themselves.
A violent storm in the Cantal has also caused damage, particularly on the town of Saint-Georges. Homes and businesses were flooded, and mudslides have occurred, according to our colleagues of The Mountain.
47 departments in vigilance orange storms
But the arrival of the degradation stormy from the west that will put an end Thursday to the wave of heat that lasts for a week has sparked a new risk. Météo-France has placed this Wednesday, the 47 departments in vigilance orange storms, on a large western half of France. On a part of these regions, notably the Ile-de-France, this vigilance storm is superimposed on the alert, heat wave, red, or orange. For others, notably in Britain, the storms are the only weather alert.
homes for stormy local occur time to time in the morning between the Vendée and Brittany. At the end of the morning, to the south of the Loire, the storm cells grow and organize themselves into a system that is more dense. This body stormy active and more violent back in the early afternoon on the Loire valley and then wins the Brittany and Maine, and in the late afternoon, Basse-Normandie.
The episode will be brief (1 or 2 hours) but intense with hail, heavy rains, electrical activity the notable and gusts may locally exceed 100 km/h. In the early evening, the thunder will be more numerous over a quarter of South-West. The showers can be sustained. In the North-East, small thundershowers will occur in the day. They will strengthen in the evening.
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In the South-East, the low clouds present in the gulf of Lion in the morning will dissipate over the hours. The weather will remain dry with a sky variable of Provence in the Rhone-Alpes. The showers accompanied by thunder will develop over the Alps and the Massif Central.
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The minimum will remain quite high, with 17 to 20 degrees in general, up to 20 to 22 on the Hauts-de-France and in the South-West. The maximum reach of 21 to 28 degrees in Brittany and along the atlantic coast, 30 to 34 degrees of Normandy to the South-West and along the Mediterranean, up to 33 to 36 degrees of Provence in the Hauts-de-France via the North-East. On Thursday, the heat wave will end in 21 hours.
