Saturday, August 9, 2014

Weather France: warning extended to 26 departments storms – RTL.fr

Weather France: warning extended to 26 departments storms – RTL.fr

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A thunderstorm in Paris (illustration).

Meteo France placed seven other departments vigilance orange because of the expected storms, bringing to 26 the total number of affected in an arc stretching from the southwest to Burgundy departments, according to a statement released late Friday morning. These seven additional departments are Ariege, Aude, Correze, Herault, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne Lozère.

Auvergne four departments (Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Allier), Ain, Aveyron, Côte-d’Or, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Jura, Loire, Lot, Nièvre, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrenees, Rhone, Saone-et-Loire, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne were already affected by the phenomenon.

In all these regions, This “strongly stormy summer” status requires “particular vigilance to the extent that a high probability of violent phenomenon exists,” notes Weather in France this weekend yet responsible on the roads (Friday rated orange in the direction of departures, Bloody Saturday in the direction of departures and orange in the returns nationally). Currently, thunderstorms circulating Aquitaine towards the Massif Central.



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“This first wave will stormy Limousin cross the late morning . It will become more active during the afternoon on the Auvergne, west of Rhône-Alpes, south of Burgundy and Franche-Comte, “said Meteo France. A second wave storm will be born on the western Pyrenees in mid-afternoon and then win the plains of the southwest, the Languedoc and achieve evening Auvergne, east of Rhône-Alpes and Burgundy.

will sometimes violent storms, with gusts of 80 to 120 km / h, heavy rainfall of up to 40mm in a short period of time as well as strong hailstorms , prevents the body. From Friday evening and into the night from Friday to Saturday, an improvement will occur and spread gradually from west to east over the area orange alert.

Several episodes Violent Storm have taken place since the early summer, occasionally causing some serious damage. The last weekend, a hamlet of a hundred inhabitants located in the Massif de l’Oisans, Isere, has been completely damaged by several mudslides.

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