Thunderstorms: 19 departments orange alert – Le Figaro

In all relevant departments, these storms can be accompanied by “violent showers” as well as “sudden and strong gusts of wind.” Depression should cover the whole territory tomorrow Thursday.

From Normandy to the Pyrenees, the west front of the country is affected by the storms. The meteorological institute Meteo Consult * 27 departments placed in orange alert. The departments concerned are: Aisne, Calvados, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Corrèze, the Cotes d’Armor, the Dordogne, Eure, Finistere, Gers, Gironde, the Ille et-Vilaine, the Landes, the Lot, the Lot-et-Garonne, the Channel, the Mayenne, the North, the Oise Orne, the Pas-de-Calais, Sarthe, Seine-Maritime, the Somme, the Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Vienne and the Val-d’Oise.

These storms that arrived first by Britain, were advancing in night courses to the north and the Paris region and then touch the southwest and central regions. Thursday, these are the regions of Central and Eastern that will be affected by these storms. On the Paris basin, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy, they should gain power during the afternoon and in the evening.

Meanwhile, Meteo France placed 23 the west facade of departments orange alert for “locally strong thunderstorms.” In all relevant departments, these thunderstorms can be locally accompanied “of heavy rain,” hail, as well as “sudden and strong gusts of wind.”

Seine-Maritime, Eure, Calvados, Orne, Mayenne, Sarthe, the Channel, the Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes d’Armor and Finistère, are thus placed in orange alert for 18 hours, until 10:00 Thursday morning. Further south, nine other departments – Charente, Charente-Maritime, Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Gers and Hautes-Pyrénées – are placed in orange alert for the same reasons, the 22-hour Wednesday at 11:00 tomorrow, Thursday. The first storms were expected early in the night on the coastal departments of Aquitaine, with gusts up to 80-90 km / h and hail risk chutte. They should then extend to the north and west by losing intensity.

* Figaro Meteo Consult is a group site.